The appeal said that Kleasen's trailer was 25 yards behind Austin Taxidermist. The Austin phone book has a business called Austin Taxidermist that is located right where the appeal said it was; it's likely it's the same place.

8739 Highway 290 W
Austin, TX

Next time I'm at the airport I will swing by and take some photos.

FYI: TCM was shot in an area that is now a sprawling suburb of Austin. The house was removed - and is now a restaurant! Read here for more info. I haven't been yet; am waiting for a special occasion.

Emailed Tobe Hooper...
 

Just to help clear things up I have emailed Tobe Hooper and asked him personally. Maybe he will tell me and maybe he won't. But, I figured if anyone would know at all he would. I'll let everyone know what he says if he emails me back.

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well this is what i heard: tcm was based on the whole wisconsin thing, but in travis co. tx. a man wit the last name hewitt, got in a fight at a bar with some guy. hewitt was drunk and just stormed out of the bar. the guy he fought with thinking everything was all good just went home. well, hewitt followed him took his chiansaw out of the back of his truck killed the whole family except for the oldest daughter who got away and spent the rest of her life in a mental institution in Dallas tx. there was no weird psycho family, there was no dead body farm. the producers just put the two together and made an ok movie, then seeing how much money they made on it decided to make a sequal out of it (hewitt was never captured.) many think he sobbered up realized what he had done, knew he was in deep shit and just left. how do they know his name was hewitt? well the answer to that question, before anyone asks, is that hewitt was a frequent visitor of the bar( the name of the bar, hewitts first name or the name of the family members killed was ever released) so when the police asked around the people who wittnessed the fight told the cops and hewitt left his chainsaw behind.


thats probably not what really happened thats just what i heard, i honestly think that tcm is just the work of the creator's imigination, and like always rumors start flying around. like when scream was released that was a true story, so was halloween, freddy, pinhead. all horror movies have one thing in common THEIR ALL FAKE! (even the blair witch project)

Wow
 

Austin, for you to believe that they used actual footage from the "incident" and put it in the REMAKE of TCM, proves to me that with the correct marketing...you can make anyone believe anything.

Story was based off of Ed Gein (FACT). Ed Gein has also "inspired" films like PSYCHO, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, & I'm sure more, just can't remember them.

TCM2003 was clever in putting in "real" footage from the crime scene, however it was very fake from a film perspective. Most Cops, especially in a town like that, probably wouldn't film a crime scene and if they would it would have fake scratches and whatnot.

Just my 2 cents. Dispute all you want.

TCM was relesed in 73 produced and made in 72, its MORE likely that the actual events that did happen were influenced from the movie. Unless Tobe is psychic:rolleyes:

Okay ..this is really gonna sound repetitive..it's NOT TRUE...there might be instances that sound similar but the points that Arioch made are very good ones and very true....With pretty much every horror movie comes urban legands..the whole: oh yea a friend of mine has a friend who knows somebody that heard about that or oh yea that happened in this town I passed through...a friend of mine heard about it....It always happens...its inevitable(sp?). :rolleyes:

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http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_k..._2.html?sect=1

Alright, it took me long enough to find this thread...

This basically explains everything you want to know (truthfully).

http://snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp

There's also a couple of links at the bottom of that page that provide documentation.

So, I guess the verdict is some of it's true, some of it's not. But by no means was it "made up".

Was Ed Gein made up?? Nope

Did he use a chainsaw?? Nope

Did he kill in Texas?? Nope

Was his family involved?? Nope

Did he kill a bunch of people?? Nope (killed 2)

Did he wear a mask made from human skin?? Yup

Did he have furniture made from skeletons?? Yup

i had this same arguement w/ my friends husband. itold him niothing happend in travis county and its losely basedon stuff that a serial killer ed g. did in a completly other state let alone county. i even look in to stories about what ed g. did and it was pretty gross. for some reason stuff like that facinates me not that im a psycho or anything i even did research on lizzie borden and jack the ripper. and i was one of those people that believed the blair witch project was real when it came out but after some research in to it found it was fake

Dont sweat it..I have the same hobbies...If your friends husband doesnt agree with you...then show him your chainsaw!!!!!lol

what the fuck is wrong with you people? why the hell is this god damn question keep being asked? It didn't fuckin happend. Everybody knows it's based on Ed and he didn't use a chainsaw blah blah blah, shut the fuck up about if it was real or not

LOL you tell um legion! no seriously can we let this thread die already? its getting as bad as one of Josh's threads

its 4 fuckin pages of the same thing. Clever mother fuckers that think they know the real story, then other people that think they know some hot shit when they say its Ed Gien and he never used a chainsaw and this and that.

Sorry
 

Hate to break the news to all who think the TCM is real, but it's NOT!!! TCM, Silence of the Lambs, and Psycho were all inspired by the crime of ED GEIN. The filmakers of TCM were from Austin and were interested in making a film about ED. The only problem was that they did not have enough money to go to Wisconsin to make the film were ED was from. ED was a trans. He wanted to be a woman. And there was a movie actually made about Ed Gein. The movie goes by his first name or his last. You guys can also go to Crime Library.com the site gives you info on all serial killers. Sorry to disappoint those who believed in a guy who killed people with a leather face and a chainsaw.

Gizmo shut the fuck up, that's been said so many god damn fuckin times. Shut your fuckin face already

whats the point of being a dick legion???

Re: Sorry
 

Not to start a whole other argument but Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lechter was based on Albert Fish.

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thats what i thought!!!

Spoon, I'm not trying to be a dick but people post the same thing over and over again, and you can't tell me it doesn't get on your nerves at all. And if it doesn't then you can't understand it. It's so fuckin annoying. Every post is the same. 4 pages of the same thing, then someone comes in and thinks "Hmm, I know what happend, too bad its been posted like 20 fuckin times, well Ill post it again". Thanks alot.

Nipple belt!
 

you guys forgot nipple belt!

....ya bastad....

I see you read the same thing i read!! I did forget the nipple belt!!;)

Ed Gein admitted to killing 2,but there were more and there sure he killed atleast 5 more.Id be willing to bet he killed atleast 20.There were alot of body parts that werent related to his grave digging that were still fresh like he just killed them so i guarentee you ita way more then 2 bud.

I think he killed more too!! Like his brother!!

I thought it was confirmed he killed his sibling

NO it was not confirmed. After ed was busted they speculated that he more than likely did but theres no proof!

To add some more gasoline to this smoldering fire, I can say that I am pretty knowledgeable of Ed Gein, having read a couple of books about the guy. Here is a direct quote from one of them. Items in parenthesis were added by me.

from "Ed Gein: Psycho" by Paul Anthony Woods, 1995, St. Martin's Press, New York.

I read that Hooper was in a dept store during the holiday season, and was standing next to the chainsaws and thought to himself, that a chainsaw would be a good way to get through people. That's how the chainsaw idea spawned (like you said) but I think I remember Henkel & Hooper saying the set was inspired by Gein (the bone room for example).

just to let everyone know.
there were real chainsaw murders in texas, and other places.
no the movie was not based off these murders.
there was a real person named ed gein and the movies are loosely based of him.
i mean very loosely.the part were he takes the faces is based on him but not for the same reason. ed took the faces and other body parts to wear so he looked like a woman.
people think the chainsaw murders inspired the movie, but it didn't.

I thought it was based on Albert Fish?

Wow. Brother and I used to be a couple of trolling little douche bags, huh?

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if you want to know the "real" story, you'll have to wait for SOUTH TEXAS BLUES, a film project with which I am intimately involved ;)

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Oooh, about time someone did the story properly. I've been saying for years that they didn't need to alter it so much to make a movie.

Nah I actually had a laugh looking back at that :D

Cool, gonna keep my eyes open for that

This thread is hilarious!!!!!!:D