View Full Version : Is texas chainsaw massacre true?
mmkill123
08-07-2005, 08:16 AM
Is texas chainsaw massacre partly true?
Haunted
08-07-2005, 08:17 AM
I could be totally wrong, but I don't think any of it or at least the bulk of it, has any basis in fact at all.
It'd be interesting to see what others have to say.
bwind22
08-07-2005, 09:56 AM
Originally posted by hellboy
Try this.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp
Hey that's a good link there. I knew most of that, but there was still a lot of cool tidbits of information in there.
AUSTIN316426808
08-07-2005, 12:19 PM
Tobe Hooper said he was in a department store in a long line, he happened to be standing in the hardware section and thought to himself...''I wish I could just take this chainsaw and go through these people''(or something close to that) That's how he got the idea.
As far as the ''based on a true story'' part of it is supposed to be taken from Ed Gein. Personally I don't think it has anything to do with Gein, Hooper just saw some similarities and took the oppurtunity to say it was based on a true story but that's just my opinion, maybe he did maybe he didn't.
Deposable
08-07-2005, 01:23 PM
^^ That is true
MisterSadistro
08-07-2005, 01:34 PM
There is one reason and one reason alone I would want to talk to ex-girlfriend of mine from years ago - she has our vacation pics and one of them is of me on Ed Gein's grave. The headstone was apparently stolen a few years ago. My mom ran into her awhile back. She's working at a hotel in Phoenix. hmmmm....
CK
Mickey M
08-07-2005, 03:44 PM
I thinks a big bulk of it is true, but alot of it has been made for Hollywood.
MisterSadistro
08-07-2005, 04:35 PM
Gein was a cross-dressing, grave-robbing, murdering cannibalistic necroplile that make outfits and furniture out of body parts. There's your 'TCM' references. 'Psycho' is also loosely based on Gein. There's a ton of books about him. Movies based more directly on him are 'Ed Gein' and 'Deranged'. Check them out.
CK
bwind22
08-08-2005, 12:51 AM
People should read that link before posting. Like 5 out of the last 6 posts have basically recycled the exact same information contained within that link. I'm not sure if they are trying to pretend they didn't read the link and acting like they know all of this or if they are just trying to be helpful, but not bothering to check the link... Either way, the information's already here so the last several posts have been rather redundant.
massacre
08-08-2005, 03:34 AM
I agree that a bulk of it waz wot really happend!
Coz it says on the begging of the film ( the original) saying the reall story.
But iz the grandpa dead?! cos he kept hitting the main girl round the head with a club hammer! im im really confused!
if he is dead that cant b reall! der......:p
bwind22
08-08-2005, 04:57 AM
Originally posted by massacre
I agree that a bulk of it waz wot really happend!
Coz it says on the begging of the film ( the original) saying the reall story.
But iz the grandpa dead?! cos he kept hitting the main girl round the head with a club hammer! im im really confused!
if he is dead that cant b reall! der......:p
What the hell? Are you serious? lol
From reading your post here, it would seem that you might actually think this is some sort of documentary or something. None of it is 'real'. It's just actors playing roles.
The bulk of it never happened. Details were borrowed from real events and a story was built around them. (See my previous post regarding reading the link before posting.)
No, the grandpa character wasn't dead, (Neither was the actor that played him.) he's just old and decripate. If he was dead, he wouldn't be able to hit her with the hammer, he'd just be laying there rotting.
XFeaRX
08-09-2005, 03:18 AM
Originally posted by massacre
I agree that a bulk of it waz wot really happend!
Coz it says on the begging of the film ( the original) saying the reall story.
But iz the grandpa dead?! cos he kept hitting the main girl round the head with a club hammer! im im really confused!
if he is dead that cant b reall! der......:p
None of it is true.
no mulier
08-09-2005, 03:49 AM
That was an interesting link posted earlier. Most of the information can also be obtained from watching the features included in the DVD.
Including some very interesting commentary from Gunnar Hansen et. al. during the supper scene.
In addition to all the information about the Tobe Hooper's fantasy about the chainsaw and hearing stories about Ed Gein as a child, he also thought that a story based around the backwater towns of Texas would be an interesting idea. He said something along the lines of:
You never know what these kinds of people are capable of...
urgeok
08-09-2005, 05:01 AM
its completely true .. all of it.
it was filmed in dcumentary fashion with a filmcrew following the action around.
the same goes for the sequels and the remake .... all true !
same with the hills have eyes, hellraiser, and evil dead.
each one of them was filmed live.
As a matter of fact, i understand there has been some Leatherface sightings at a Burger King in Montana.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/rockinmule/burgerking.jpg
EXTR3MIST
08-09-2005, 03:55 PM
No.
Wait...
...still no.
zwoti
08-09-2005, 10:15 PM
Originally posted by urgeok
same with the hills have eyes
what about the sequel........cause that would mean dogs can have flashbacks :eek:
bwind22
08-10-2005, 12:25 AM
And that's not the actor, Matthew McConaughey, in TCM: Next Generation with the bionic leg. That's just some guy with a real bionic leg that kinda looks like him.
urgeok
08-10-2005, 04:43 AM
Originally posted by bwind22
And that's not the actor, Matthew McConaughey, in TCM: Next Generation with the bionic leg. That's just some guy with a real bionic leg that kinda looks like him.
no, that was matthew ... all of this stuff really happened to him and renee z-whatever.
thats why they decided to become actors