Is texas chainsaw massacre true?
 

Is texas chainsaw massacre partly true?

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.

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.

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.

^^ That is true

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....
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I thinks a big bulk of it is true, but alot of it has been made for Hollywood.

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.
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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.

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