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Old 12-07-2003, 08:14 AM
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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.
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Old 12-07-2003, 10:14 AM
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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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Old 12-07-2003, 10:39 AM
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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)
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Old 12-07-2003, 11:43 AM
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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.
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Old 12-07-2003, 03:09 PM
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However, the link says that he committed the murders on 10/28/74; I think that TCM was released before that. So it's unlikely that the filmmakers were influenced by him.
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:
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Old 12-07-2003, 06:11 PM
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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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Old 12-13-2003, 08:26 AM
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.................................................. .......go here.

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/s...73/gein_cf.htm

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_k..._2.html?sect=1
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Old 12-23-2003, 10:34 PM
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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".
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Old 12-24-2003, 03:49 AM
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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
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Old 12-24-2003, 01:50 PM
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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
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