The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and his brother (Paul A. Partain) Franklin traveling with three friends in a cemetery holds the grave of Hardesty grandfather. They aim to study reports of vandalism and bodies of pollution. Then they decided a family Hardesty old farm to visit, and on the road, the group takes a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal). The man speaks and acts weird slash, and then Franklin and himself with a razor before being forced to leave the group. The group stops at a gas station to fuel their vehicles, but when they find the owner (Jim Siedow), the pumps are empty, the group continues to farm, intending to return later to the station gas after a fuel truck makes the delivery. Franklin tells Kirk (William Vail) and Pam (Teri McMinn) on a local swimming hole, and the couple went to find it. Instead, they fall on a neighboring house. Kirk decides to residents asking for some gas, while Pam waits on the porch.
received no answer, but finding the door unlocked, Kirk enters the house, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) suddenly appears and kills him. Pam comes shortly after finding the house full of furniture made of human bones. She tries to flee, but Leatherface grabs him and impaled on a meat hook. At sunset, Sally’s boyfriend Jerry (Allen Danziger) heads in search of others. Find some cover away from home, study and live in a freezer Pam. Before he could react, Leatherface appears and murders him, filling Pam back in the freezer then.
night falls, Sally and Franklin together to their friends. As they near the house of the murderer, calling for others, Leatherface slits of darkness and murder in Franklin with a chainsaw. Sally escapes the house only for the dried remains of an elderly couple in an upstairs bedroom. With Leatherface is still pursuing her, she jumps through a window on the second floor and continues to operate at the, finally arriving at the gas station. As she reached, Leatherface disappears into the night. The owner initially calm her with offers of help, then binds her with rope and strength in his truck. He drove home, arriving at the same time as the hitchhiker, who turns to his younger brother Leatherface. The duo brings Sally, mocking her with the lift when he realizes who she is.
The torment of men bound and gagged, while Sally Leatherface, now dressed as a woman, dinner is served. The old man is at the top is still alive, and the table for the meal to join. During the night, they decided to Sally to be killed by “Grandpa” (John Dugan) out of respect for his work at the slaughterhouse when he was young. “Grandpa” is too weak to Sally with a hammer several times down. In the confusion, Sally becomes available, jumps out the window and escaped from the house, runs into the street. Leatherface and the hitchhiker give chase, but the lifter is removed and killed by a tractor-trailer passing. Armed with his chainsaw, Leatherface attacks the truck when the driver stops to help, and slap in the face with a scale used by the pilot. Sally escapes into the bed of a truck route and the waves of the Leatherface chainsaw above his head in frustration.
Production Development

“I know ,…. but I also studied Gein seen a murder case in Houston at the time, you probably remember a serial killer Elmer Wayne Henley called. He was a young man who suffered recruited to an older man gay. I have some news to report Elmer Wayne said … “I saw these crimes and I get up and take it like a man” Well, I thought it was interesting to note that conventional morality he had at that point. He wanted to know that now he was caught, it was the right thing to do. So this kind of moral schizophrenia is something I tried to build in the characters. “

Kim Henkel The concept for the film originated in the early 1970s, while Hooper worked as a college professor at the University of Texas at Austin and as a documentary cameraman. He had already developed the idea of ​​a film centered isolation, the woods and darkness, and continued to explore these ideas when he got the idea for the film. He also credited the local San Antonio new part of the inspiration for the film, due to the graphical nature of the story occurred. development has occurred with the working titles of black pudding and Leatherface. Hooper plot loosely based on the murders committed by serial killer Ed Gein of Wisconsin in 1950, which served as inspiration for a number of other horror movies.
In discussing the influences on the film, Hooper cites the impact of changes in cultural and political landscape. It is directly correlated with the deliberate misinformation that the “film you will see is true” as a response to “the government lied about things that were going in the world” including Watergate, the fuel crisis and the “massacres and atrocities in the Vietnam War. “Extra” lack of sentimentality and brutality of things “that Hooper noticed while watching the local news coverage was graphic,” the brain spilled on the road “led to his conviction” that man was the real monster here but have a different face, so I put a mask on the monster literally in my film. “The idea came to Hooper with a chainsaw, while in the hardware section of a crowded store when it was seen as a way to quickly through the crowd.
Hooper and Kim Henkelhe original writers screenplayormed a company called Vortex, Inc., with Henkel as president and Hooper as vice president. They asked Bill Parsley, a friend of Hooper, funding for the film to offer. Persil then formed a company called MAB, Inc. and 000 invested to make the film. In exchange MAB has fifty percent of the film and profit. Production Manager Ron Bozman said most of the cast and crew for part of their salary to defer until after the movie was sold . Vortex makes the idea more attractive by grant of nearly everyone with some of the potential benefits Vortex, ranging from 0.25 to six per cent (similar to mortgage points). Due to a miscommunication between the vortex and the other, the cast and crew were unaware that Vortex only fifty percent of the film in hand, making their points is half the assumed value.
The crew had exceeded the initial budget for the film 000 in the edition, which had reached a total of 0000. Pie in the Sky (PITS) given in exchange for 532 profits by 19 percent to 50 percent from Vortex. remained Henkel and Hooper with 45 percent of the vortex between them and the other 36 percent spread over 20 cast and crew members. Skare Warren entered into an agreement as an equal partner with Hooper and Henkel, with a share of 15 per cent of Vortex. Skare received a deferred salary of 000 and three percent of gross wages (MAB combined and Vortex). David Foster, producer of the horror film The Thing 1982 had organized a private screening for some of the west coast distributing Bryanston business leaders, and received 1.5 percent of the Vortex and a deferred compensation gain of 0.
. On August 28, 1974, Louis (Butch) Periano distribution company Bryanston presented Bozman and Skare contract in 5000 and 35 percent of the profits of the distribution of the film years later, Bozman said: “We have a pact with the devil [sighs], and I think in a sense, we got what we deserved. “She signed the contract with Bryanston. After the investors their money earned (including interest) were wage Skare and supervision and to pay lawyers and accountants were paid, leaving, 100 is shared between 20 members of the cast and crew . Finally, the producers continued Bryanston for not paying their share of profits at the box office. decision of a judge of a penalty sum of Bryanston 0000 to be paid to directors, when the company had declared bankruptcy. Bryanston Pictures folded in 1976 when Louis Peraino obscenity was convicted for his role in the production of the film Deep Throat (1972). New Line Cinema has taken over from Bryanston and gives producers a greater percentage of the gross profits of Bryanston first she had paid.

Many cast members had cast little or no previous acting credits. The cast consisted of actors around Texas, who had earlier roles in commercials and television programs, but also the actors who were acquaintances of Hooper. Participation by members of the film cast adrift in many film industry. The main role of Sally was then unknown Marilyn Burns. Burns was previously on stage, and while attending the University of Texas at Austin, she joined its board of directors of the Film Commission. Teri McMinn was a student and worked with several local companies including the Dallas Theater Center. Henkel saw his picture in the Austin American Statesman, McMinn and called ahead to a conference. On his last call, he asked that they wear short shorts. His costume was the most comfortable of all the cast members costumes, bearing in mind the Texas heat that would last the entire shoot. Icelandic actor Gunnar Hansen was given the role of Leatherface. While preparing for his role, Hansen came Leatherface considered mentally retarded and never learned to speak. Hansen attended a school for mentally disabled and displaced students looked and spoke with a sense of his character. Hansen recalled, “He was 95, 100 degrees every day during filming. They did not wash my clothes because they feared that the machine can lose or change color. They have enough money for half the costumes. So I wore that [hidden] from 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week for a month. “

Filming Filming took place in Austin, Round Rock and Austin, Texas July 15, 1973 à 14 August 1973, for more than four weeks. The cast and crew found difficult working conditions. High temperatures occurring during the filming, the record on July 26 to 97F (36C). Most of the filming was over July 31 to 83F (28.3C). The house was not cooled, and all ventilation was closed because the stage is set for the night. The film was shot in particular through a 16 mm camera Eclair NPR, inflated to 32 mm and the low speed of the film required four times more light than the camera modern. Because of the low budget, the crew filmed seven days a week, 12 to 16 hours a day, while they are dealing with high humidity. Most of the filming took place in an isolated farmhouse filled with furniture made from animal bones and the use of a latex material covering the appearance of human skin to give. The crew of the walls of the house covered in splats of blood dried to give the home an authentic look.
art director Robert A. Burns driven around the countryside, collecting the bones of cattle and other animals at different stages of decomposition, he used to litter the floors of the house. The film is the special effects were simple and limited by the budget. Filmmakers plants of marijuana discovered at least 100 on the back of the farm … they belonged to the tenant house at the time of the local sheriff was called to investigate but do not touch, and the filmmakers are never reported photographed the blood was sometimes true during the filming of the scene where Leatherface feeds grandfather, the death of the crew will stage the blood out of the tube was, as Burns the finger was cut with a razor. Burns was so soaked suit the stage of blood, it is almost certain that the last day of the shooting. The scene, after Pam was hanging meat hook, when Leatherface uses his first chainsaw, causing some concern with actor Vail (Kirk). Kirk had his head cut off, and actor Hansen (Leatherface) said Vail does not move or it would literally be killed. Hansen, then brought back to run the chainsaw within three inches from the face of Vail.

statement after the end of the post-production, the filmmakers found it difficult to get a distributor for the film, due to graphic content market for sure, but August 28, 1974, the company agreed to distribute the film to distribute Bryanston. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the first of October 1, 1974 in Austin, Texas, nearly a year after the completion of filming . The film shown nationally in the United States as an afternoon of Saturday morning, and found success with a wider audience, after harm has been marketed as a “true story”. After 1976, the film was reissued in the first run theaters each year, eight years, with a full-page advertisement.
Hooper would have hoped that the MPAA would be the full, uncut print a number to indicate PG because of the amount minimum of gore in the film, the film was finally released uncensored by the MPAA rating with an R. The film was banned in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Chile, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and the UK. After the first release, including launching a dramatic year in London, the film was banned in the UK in large part on the authority of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) Secretary James Ferman, but had a limited release in theaters due to the different municipalities such as Camden Council, who are licensed Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which later became 18 by the BBFC. censors tried to change the film for a wide release in 1977, but failed. At the time of the film to ban the word “saw” forbidden to film titles, which enables studios to rename their films. One of this film was Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers Hookers changed in Hollywood, with a picture of a chain saw replacement of the word. The BBFC passed the film in 1999 without cuts. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a year later broadcast on Channel 4.
Council Australian censorship first saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre in June 1975 and has rapidly declined 83 minutes off the pressing record. The distributor of the Review Board, which upheld the decision in August 1975. The distributor has prepared a reconstructed version of 77 minutes , only to see it banned again in December 1975. In 1976, Australian authorities also banned the edited version of the film. It took five years for the film to be censored, and the film was banned again. Grand Union Film Distributors Organisation (GUO) were rejected for a 2283.4 (83m 27s) off the press in July 1981. The reason given for the ban was free and frequent violence of a high intensity. A sense of 83 minutes by Film Australia Railway was approved for an R-rating in January 1984.

grossed over a million in the U.S., making it one of the most successful independent film. It was surpassed in 1978 by John Carpenter’s Halloween, one million at the box office gross in the publication. was selected to the 1975 Cannes Directors Fortnight, even if the view is the result a bomb threat delayed. In 1976 the film won the Grand Prix at the Festival of Fantastic Film Avoriaz in France. The film was generally well received. most critics, TV Guide called it “a smart , absorption, and deeply disturbing horror film that almost bloodless in its depiction of violence, “and the empire he called” pure horror film ever made macabre “Chicago Reader, said: “The image for more intensity in his work, but Hooper has a talent. “Tomatoes Total Film Review site Rotten gave the film a 90%” fresh “rating.
Some reviewers did not like the film’s violence and gore special effects. The film released in San Francisco saw moviegoers to theaters to walk disgust. In February 1976, the theater in Ottawa, Canada asked the Texas Chainsaw Massacre to shoot because of concerns about the increasing violence associated with. the movie Linda Gross Los Angeles Times called “despicable film” Hooper and Henkel and described as “. less concerned with a script plastic” Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is as violent and gruesome and bloody as the title promises … not clear purpose, unless the creation of the horror and fear is a goal … and yet it is well made, well acted, and too effective. “Steve Crum Dispatch-Tribune newspapers have criticized the film, he described as “cult-like garbage that new standards for brutality.” In his article in 1976 “Fashions of pornography” for the magazine Harper, the writer Stephen Koch describes Chain Saw Massacre Texas as “unrelenting sadistic violence as extreme and hideous as a complete lack of imagination can do. ” Bruce Westbrook of the Houston Chronicle called the film “a masterpiece of Backwoods fear and disgust, Texas style.”
Thirty-six years later, some critics called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the scariest movies ever made. Mike Emery of the Austin Chronicle said the film was “horrible, but always interesting … But the worst of this view is that despite the sensational aspects, never seems too far from what could be the truth. “Noted reviewer Rex Reed called” the most terrifying film I’ve ever seen. “Fellow horror director Wes Craven’s first memories of watching the film, saying he wondered” what kind crazoid Mansonite “would have” called for a visceral experience and punishment. ” Horror writer Stephen King is the “catastrophic terrorism” and said “I would like to have redeeming social merit testify in court in the country.” Variety said: “Despite the high dose of Gore Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper photograph is composed an exploiter of its kind. “The film was also named one of the few horror films called” quality authentic nightmare. ”

Home Media Chainsaw Massacre for the first, the film has appeared on various home video formats such as VHS, laserdisc, December, DVD, UMD and Blu-ray. It was first released on video and format of December in the year 1980 by Wizard Video, Vestron Video. The film was banned again in the UK in 1984, during the moral panic about video nasties. Following the resignation of the secretary, Ferman, in 1999, the BBFC passed the film uncut for cinema and video, the certificate 18, almost 25 years after its original release. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally released on DVD in October 1998 for the United States, and because of the controversy surrounding the film in May 2000 for the United Kingdom. A revised edition DVD of the film was released in 2007 in Australia, having originally been released on DVD in 2001. An area of ​​two disc edition was published by Dark Sky Films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Ultimate Edition. The statement included a number of interviews, a better quality of picture and sound, and other features such as deleted scenes. Reviews for the release was very positive, with critics praising the sound and picture quality of the restoration. A region 0 DVD edition of three, entitled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Seriously Ultimate Edition, was released in the UK on November 3, 2008. Dark Sky Films has released a Blu-ray Disc the film on September 30, 2008. Blu-ray was then released by Second Sight Films in the UK on November 16, 2009.
Legacy and influence
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time, is strongly influenced horror. Ridley Scott, the film credited as an inspiration for the film Alien 1979. French director Alexandre Aja Texas Chainsaw Massacre credited, among other films, such as the influence early in his life. Channel 4 called “a triumph of style and atmosphere”, saying, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is definitely one of horror’s most influential of all time. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) recorded the movie using a minimum of blood and gore, and focused instead on the tension. The film was TIME Magazine top 25 horror films of all time. In 1990, the film was inducted into the Hall of Fame Horror, with Tobe Hooper to accept the award. William Friedkin Hooper initiated in the 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame. New York City Museum of Modern Art added the film to the permanent collection, validation of its claim as legitimate, non-conventional art. Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 6 on their list of “Top 50 Great Classics”. Rebecca Ascher-Walsh believes that the film “The path of these franchises future shock, such as Halloween, Evil Dead and The Blair Witch Project paved.” Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times described the film as “cheap, dirty and out of control” and the film “well defined and completely replaces the notion of operating table.” In a Total Film poll conducted in 2005, the film has been selected as the horror film the greatest of all time. Leatherface has a reputation as one of the most disturbing and notorious in the horror genre, The Times and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the list as one of 50 films the most controversial of all time.
horror filmmaker and singer of heavy metal of Rob Zombie see the film as a major influence, especially in his film House of 1000 Corpses, released in 2003. Isabel Cristina Pinedo said: “The kind of horror to comedy and terror in the dark to keep as it is to successfully enter the thin line between terrorism and parody … this delicate balance is found in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where the rotting corpse of Grandpa not only equipped with horrific and humorous effect, but actually uses one to aggravate the other. “Scott Von Doviak’s Flicks Hick calls” one of the few horror films to the efficient use of daylight horrible right from the opening shot of a decomposing body on a tombstone in the cemetery. ” The book, Contemporary North American film called the film “an alarming inspection of madness in rural areas, more complicated and less bloody than the title might connote.111] In the book of horror movies, opinion a film critic was that it was “the most influence on the entire thriller gore, and in a broader perspective, one of the horror movies the most efficient ever made …” and that “the driving force behind Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than the deviant sexuality: Total insanity.112] Christopher Null of Filmcritic.com said:” In our consciousness, Leatherface and his chainsaw became collective as iconic as Freddy and Jason and his hockey mask or razors. “The film was placed 199th in the 2008 list of 500 greatest films Empire magazine of all time

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Shortly after Chainsaw Massacre is set to be a success on home video in 1982, assistant video released an adaptation of mass market video games for the Atari 2600. In the game, the player assumes the role of main antagonist of murder film, Leatherface and tried to intruders, while avoiding obstacles such as fences and cow skulls. As one of the first game of Horror on the theme, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre caused a controversy when it was due to the violent nature of video games published and sold poorly because many game stores refused to stock. Other commercial assistant news videos, Halloween , has received a slightly better, the limited number of copies sold has appreciated the game under the Atari collectibles.
Several comic-based franchise Texas Chainsaw Massacre was created in 1991 by Northstar Comics law Leatherface. They were dismissed from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise to Avatar Press for use in new comic book stories, which was first published in 2005. In 2006, Avatar Press lost the license to label DC Comics, Wildstorm, which published new stories based on the franchise. In June 2007, Wildstorm Comics changed some horror, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the monthly issues of miniseries and specials. Series comic featuring any of the main characters appeared in the original film (Jason vs. Leatherface comic Topps series is exempt), with the exception of Leatherface, was the 1991 “Leatherface” mini-series loosely based on the third film Massacre chainsaw. writer Mort Castle, said: “The series is very loosely based on Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, I worked from the original script by David Schow and heavily edited theatrical version directed by Jeff Burr, but had his hand over or less free to write history. it should say. The first issue sold 30,000 copies. “
Kirk Jarvinen drew the first number, and Guy Burwell finished the rest of the series. The strips, which are not the same limits of the MPAA, has much more gore than the final film. The end, as the fates of various characters, was also modified. An adaptation of the chainsaw massacre was planned by Northstar comics, but never came Sequelae

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has three product suites, and a remakeitled Texas Chainsaw Massacre and produced by Michael Bayeleased in 2003. The original film was followed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), again directed by Hooper. Result was much more graphic and more violent than the original, because a greater amount of gore in the film was present and was therefore banned in Australia for 20 years, but finally released on DVD in an edition Special revised in October 2006. Result has been less well received by critics, because they felt it moves away from the terror of the original in the interests of black humor. Gunnar Hansen was asked to reprise his role as Leatherface in the second film, but ultimately refused
The film spawned two more suites, Leatherface:. Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) was next, with a budget of millions of euros. Hooper did not return for the film because of scheduling conflicts with another film, a spontaneous combustion. The film was directed by Jeff Burr place. Chris Parcellin Film Threat said: “It’s just another generic slasher film with nothing but Leatherface connection recommended for fans of criticism.” The third installment, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation was released in 1995, with Rene Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. The film was a remake of the semi-original, but it was originally intended to provide a complete remake of the first film. Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide Movie Guide says that the film was “tired and dated “.
remake called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 2003 by Platinum Dunes. The film plays Jessica Biel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski as Leatherface, and R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt. The film received positive reviews than the critical consequences, even if it achieved a 35% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes to be achieved, with 52 positive reviews out of 150. Ebert called it “a contemptible film:. Vile, ugly and brutal “A prequel to the remake, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, was released in 2006. The film was directed by Jonathan Liebesman, and produced by Michael Bay and Mike Fleiss. He had a starring cast of