It is a direct sequel to the original 1974 film, with no relation to the previous sequels, or the 2003 remake.īudget. A seventh film, Texas Chainsaw 3D, was released on January 4, 2013. It was followed by a prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, in 2006. During development, Hooper used the working titles of Headcheese and Leatherface. He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film and based elements of the plot on murderer Ed Gein, who committed his crimes in 1950s Wisconsin Gein inspired other horror films such as Psycho (1960) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He had already developed a story involving the elements of isolation, the woods, and darkness. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was inducted into the Horror Hall of Fame in 1990, with director Hooper accepting the award, and it is part of the permanent collection of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the hitchhiker, the proprietor, and Leatherface. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, released in 2003, the movie adapted a different storyline and changed Leatherface’s real name to Thomas Brown Hewitt. And in the second film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, the name of the Leatherface was revealed to be Bubba Sawyer.
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