Since the characters and storyline are based off of real-life events, this helps the film achieve a sense of realism even while the viewer is watching insanity on the big screen. So this kind of moral schizophrenia is something I tried to build into the characters.” He wanted it known that, now that he was caught, he would do the right thing. I saw some news report where Elmer Wayne said, ‘I did these crimes, and I’m gonna stand up and take it like a man.’ Well, that struck me as interesting, that he had this conventional morality at that point. He was a young man who recruited victims for an older homosexual man.
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Hooper based some of the story’s elements from the real-life Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, who was also the inspiration for the movies “Psycho” and “The Silence of the Lambs”.Ĭo-screenwriter Kim Henkel drew inspiration from a local crime story in the Texas area and has this to say about the case: “I definitely studied Gein but I also noticed a murder case in Houston at the time, a serial murderer you probably remember named Elmer Wayne Henley. Shot on 16mm, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” feels almost like documentary because of its realism.
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Yet it was so intense and realistic that it became an unforgettable movie experience for anyone who watched it, and one of the most influential and important movies in the horror genre, making “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” a masterpiece in horror cinema. This classic low-budget horror film, produced on a $300,000 budget, was original and well made and didn’t rely on blood and gore to deliver its scares. Not, however, that you’d necessarily enjoy seeing it.” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” belongs in a select company (with “Night of the Living Dead” and “Last House on the Left”) of films that are really a lot better than the genre requires. So they provide a good starting place for ambitious would-be filmmakers who can’t get more conventional projects off the ground. Roger Ebert gave the following review for the film for the Chicago Sun-Times: “Horror and exploitation films almost always turn a profit if they’re brought in at the right price. It’s surprising that such a good-natured man was responsible for one of the most disturbing and violent horror films in the history of cinema when “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” was released in theaters in 1974. Just about everyone remembers Hooper as one of the nicest person you could ever meet. The response on Twitter coming from Hollywood all echo a similar theme from John Carpenter, Eli Roth, James Wan and Stephen King, everyone praised the director as a kindhearted individual and a decent human being. Over the summer we lost a legend in the world of horror cinema when film director Tobe Hooper passed away at the age of 74.
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