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Plot
Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and his brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) traveling with three friends in a cemetery holds the grave of his grandfather Hardesty. They aim to investigate vandalism and desecration. She then decided to visit an old family farm Hardesty, and on the way, the group takes up a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal). The man speaks and acts strangely, then bars and Franklin himself with a razor blade in his hand before he forced Van Group. The group stops at a gas station in your cars fuel, but when they discover the owner (Jim Siedow) that the pumps are empty, the group relies on the court and wanted the station back gasoline later, in force after a tanker from its delivery . Franklin says Kirk (William Vail) and Pam (Teri McMinn) at a local swimming hole, and the couple she was found. Instead, they fall on a nearby house. . Kirk decides to ask the residents of certain gases, while Pam waits on the porch
received no answer, but found the door unlocked, Kirk enters the house, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) suddenly appears and kills. Pam from shortly after to find the house filled with furniture made of human bones. She tries to escape, but Leatherface and gets impaled on a Meathook. At sunset, head Sally’s boyfriend Jerry (Allen Danziger) out to see for others. Find coverage of the couple in front of the house, he studied and Pam found alive in a freezer. Before he could react, Leatherface and appears murders, Pam filling in the freezer.
By nightfall Sally and Franklin went looking for their friends. When she at the house of the murderer, others call, rushes Leatherface from the darkness and killing Franklin with a chainsaw. Sally flees the house only to find the dried remains of an elderly couple in a bedroom upstairs. With Leatherface still in pursuit, she jumps through a window on the second floor and continued to flee, eventually arriving at the gas station. When they reached Leatherface disappears into the night. The owner quietly at first by offering his help, then binds them with rope, and his strength in his truck. He drove home and arrived at the same time as the hitchhiker who turns out to be the younger brother of Leatherface are. The pair of Sally put into it, with the Hitchhiker’s taunts when he realizes who she is.
Torment men bound hand and foot, while Sally Leatherface, now dressed as a woman serving dinner. The old man upstairs is still alive, and brought to the table to join the meal. At night, they decided, Sally is from “young Grandpa (John Dugan) out of respect for his work in the slaughterhouse when he was killed.” Grandfather “is too small to remove a hammer Sally repeated. In the confusion, Sally is released, jumped from a window and fled the house, the road runs along. Leatherface and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the prosecution, but the hitchhiker was overthrown by a tractor-trailer and killed by. Armed with his chainsaw, Leatherface attacks the truck to help if the driver stops and posted exercised face with an important key for the driver. Sally flies into the bed of a pickup in passing, that the waves of Leatherface chainsaw above his head in the development frustration.Production

“I studied Gein ,…. but I also .. noticed a murder case in Houston at the time, a serial killer, you probably remember Elmer Wayne Henley called, he was a young man who recruited the victims of an old gay man, I saw the newscast where Elmer Wayne … says: “I have these crimes, and I’ll stand up and it like a man. “Now it seemed interesting that he had conventional morality at this point to know he that he was trapped now wish he would do the right thing so. what kind of moral schizophrenia is something I j have tried to build into the characters. “Henkel Kim

The concept of the film was increased in early 1970, while Hooper worked as a college professor at the University of Texas in Austin and as a documentary cameraman. Previously, he developed the idea of a film centering on the isolation, the forests and the dark, and sat down to explore these ideas, as he thought the concept of the film. It also has a local San Antonio news awards under the inspiration for the film because of the graphical nature of the story value. Development was held with the working title of the head cheese and Leatherface. Hooper story loosely on the murders by serial killer Ed Gein 1950′s Wisconsin, who supposedly committed served as inspiration for a series of horror films.
In discussing influences on the film Hooper called the impact of changes in the cultural and political landscape. It is directly correlated with disinformation deliberately, that the “film you see is real,” in response to, including “the government about what is happening song in the world” of Watergate, the gasoline crisis, and “massacres and atrocities in Vietnam War. “Other” lack of sentimentality and brutality of things, “Hooper noted that while the local reporting, has mapped, as the brains spilled all over the road” led to his conviction, “this man was real monster here only with a different face, so I have a mask on the literal monster in my film. “The idea of a chainsaw with Hooper came while in the hardware sector is a business so crowded that it is a quick way to set the amount .
Hooper and writer Kim Henkelhe original screenplayormed a company called Vortex, Inc., Henkel, President and Vice President Hooper. They asked to give Bill Parsley, a friend of Hooper, the financing for the film. Parsley then formed a company called MAB, Inc. and invested € 000 for the film. In return, MAB is one of fifty percent of the film and its benefits. Production Manager Ron Bozman said the move most of the actors and crew to a portion of their salaries until the film was sold. Vortex makes the idea attractive through the award of nearly everyone with a share of the potential benefits of the Vortex, from .25 to six percent (compared with points of mortgages). Due to a lack of communication between the vortex and the other actors and crew were not informed that vortex covers only fifty percent of the film, considered their points and a half dollar.
The crew had exceeded the original, 000 budget for the film during processing, that time amounted to a total of 0.000. Pie in the Sky (pits) has donated 532 in exchange for 19 percent of Vortex 50 percent of the profits. This is Henkel and Hooper with 45 percent of the vortex split them, and the remaining 36 percent among the 20 actors and crew. Skaar Warren made a deal as an equal partner with Hooper and Henkel, with a share of 15 percent of the Vortex. Skaar received a deferred salary of 000 and three percent of the gross profits (MAB combined and Vortex). David Foster, producer of the horror film The Thing 1982, a private screening for some Bryanston Distributing Company’s West Coast executives had organized, and received 1.5 percent of the profits of the Vortex and deferred income of 0
On 28 August 1974, offered Louis (Butch) Periano Bryanston Distribution Company a contract Skaar Bozman and 5000 and 35 percent of the profits from the worldwide distribution of the film. Years later, Bozman said: “.. We made a pact with the devil, [sigh] and I guess in a sense, we have what we have earned” She signed the contract with Bryanston After investors get their money (including interest) Skaar and pay monitoring fees were paid, and paid lawyers and accountants, so that only 100 will be divided among the 20 members of the team film. Finally, the producers continued Bryanston, because they pay a percentage of profits at the box office. A trial court imposed the sum of 0000 to Bryanston to pay for filmmakers, and bankruptcy, the company said. Bryanston Pictures folded in 1976, when Louis Peraino was convicted of obscenity for his role in the production of the film Deep Throat (1972). New Line Cinema has succeeded in Bryanston and gave producers a greater percentage of the gross profits Bryanston had originally paid.

casting most of the cast have little or no acting credits. The band consisted of players around the Texas had previous roles in advertising and television and on stage, and actor, the friend of Hooper. Participation in the many film actors driven in the film industry. The lead role of Sally were unknown at the time was Marilyn Burns. Burns had already appeared on stage, and while attending the University of Texas at Austin, she joined the board of directors of the Film Commission. Teri McMinn was a student and worked with several local theater groups, including including the Dallas Theater Center. Henkel spotted his picture in the Austin American-Statesman and called McMinn come to a reading. On his last call, he asked them with short pants. His costume’s proves’ to be the easiest of all costumes of the actors, taking into account the heat of Texas, during the filming. Icelanders would take an actor Gunnar Hansen Leatherface got the part. In preparation for his role, Hansen Leatherface to mental retardation, he never learned to speak properly was considered. Hansen attended a school for mentally disabled and watched as the students and spoke to displaced people an idea of his character. Hansen recalls:.. “He was 95, 100 degrees every day during the filming you did not wash my clothes, because they know that the clothes lose it can, or it changes color afraid you do not have enough money for a second suit. So I wore [mask] shoot 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week for a month. “

filming took place in Austin, Round Rock and Bastrop, Texas on 15 July 1973 by 14 August 1973, over four weeks. The cast and crew found the difficult working conditions. High temperatures during the shooting occurred, at the 26th Summit July to 97f (36C). The lowest level was on during the filming of 31st July at 83F (28.3C). The house was not cooled, and ventilation was closed because the stage is set for the night. The film was largely shot in Eclair NPR camera with a 16 mm, inflated to 32 mm, the low speed of the film four times more light than modern cameras. Due to the low budget, the team filmed seven days a week, 12 to 16 hours per day, while it cope with high humidity. Much of the filming took place in a remote farmhouse with furniture made from animal bones and place with a latex material as a cushion to the appearance of human skin filled. The crew covered the walls of the house with dried icons of blood to the house an authentic look.
director Robert A. Burns toured the countryside, collecting bones cattle and other animals in different stages of decomposition, he used to litter the floors of the house. Film special effects are simple and limited by the budget. The filmmakers have found at least 100 marijuana plants on the back of the farm: they belonged to the person who rented the house at the time. The local sheriff was called to investigate, but not yet arrived and the filmmakers are never reported. The blood was sometimes represented genuine. While shooting the scene where Leatherface feeds grandfather had the team’s difficulties, the blood to step out of the tube, then the index Burns was cut with a razor blade. Burns costume was so with blood stage it was almost solid fall on the last day of shooting. Pam on the scene after Meathook was thrilled when the first Leatherface uses his chain saw, caused some uneasiness, the actors Vail (Kirk). Kirk was about to make his head cut off, and the actor Hansen (Leatherface) Vail did not move or it would literally be killed. Hansen then led operation saw three inches from the face of Vail.Communiqué

At the end of the post-production, filmmakers have difficulty finding a ready market traders had the film because of graphic content, but 28th August 1974, the Company has decided Bryanston Distribution to distribute the film. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was created first October 1974 in Austin, Texas, nearly a year after the shooting. The film shown nationally in the United States as a morning last week and found success with a wider audience, after he mistakenly called “true story” marketing. After 1976, the film released in the first round every year, was reissued last eight years, with full-page ads.
Hooper hoped that the MPAA would be the complete, uncut print release a PG rating because of the minimum shown in the film Gore, the film was released by the MPAA with an R uncensored. The film was in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Chile, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and the United Kingdom prohibited. After the first run, including a trip to a year in London theater, the film was banned in the United Kingdom largely on the authority of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) Secretary James Ferman, but had a limited theatrical output because of various councils, including Camden Council has granted a license to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was then classified 18 by the BBFC. Censors tried to edit the film to the needs of a wider release in 1977 but in vain. At the time of the ban on the film, the word “saw” was illegal movie titles, forcing the studios to rename their films. Such a film has Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers Hollywood Hookers renamed, with a picture of a chainsaw to replace the word. The BBFC passed the film without cuts in 1999. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a year later on Channel 4.La censorship
Australia was first seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in June 1975 and refused to register quickly released pressure 83 minutes. The merchant uses the Review Board, which confirmed the decision in August 1975. The dealer has prepared a reconstructed version of 77 minutes, just to see, banned again in December 1975. In 1976, Australian authorities have also banned the short version of the film. It took five years for the film censors to be reintroduced, and the film was banned again. Greater Union Organisation (Guo) film distributors were entering a 2283.4 (83m 27s) print refused in July 1981. The reason for this prohibition is frequent and gratuitous violence was of high intensity. pressure was 83 minutes by Filmways Australia presented for an R rating in January 1984.Réception

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reported more dollars approved in the U.S., and is one of the most successful independent films. It was surpassed in 1978 by John Carpenter’s Halloween, the dollars at the box office upon release reported. He in the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes 1975 Film Festival was selected when the display was delayed because of a bomb threat. 1976 The film won the Grand Prize at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, France. The film was generally well received by most critics, with TV Guide as “an intelligent, absorbing and deeply disturbing horror film, the almost bloodless in its depiction of violence” and the Empire as a “horror movie of all times, the worst pure”. Chicago Reader said: comprehensive movie review site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film to 90% “fresh” rating
“The picture is more about its intensity than its craft, but Hooper has a talent.”. Some reviewers liked the film violence and gore special effects. The film, the San Francisco Film lovers have to walk in theaters in disgust. In February 1976, Theatre in Ottawa, Canada were invited to remove saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre because of concerns about the increasing violence associated with the movie. Linda Gross Los Angeles Times “reported less with a script from plastic involved. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote,” as “despicable movie” Hooper and Henkel, and as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre “is as violent and bloody and cruel as the title promises … for no apparent reason, unless the creation of disgust and fear is a goal … and yet it is well done, well done and effective. “Steve Crum Dispatch-Tribune newspapers criticized the film, describes it as “trash cult, set new standards for low brutality. In 1976 his article” Fashions in pornography “for Harper’s Magazine, says writer Stephen Koch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as” unrelenting sadistic violence as extreme and hideous as a can complete lack of imagination can do. “Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle called the film” a masterpiece of the hinterland of fear and disgust, Texas-style. “
Thirty-six years later, some critics, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre one of the scariest movies of all time . Mike Emery of the Austin Chronicle said the film was “horrible, yet fascinating … But the worst thing about this vision is that, despite its sensational aspects, it never seems too far from what could be the truth. “Noted critic Rex Reed called it” the worst film I’ve ever seen. “Fellow horror director Wes Craven has recalled his first viewing of the film and said he wonders “what kind of crazoid Mansonite” “evoked a very intense experience and punish” If horror novelist Stephen King refers to “catastrophic terrorism” and said: “. I would be happy to testify to his redeeming social value in any jurisdiction in the country. “Variety said.” Despite heavy doses of gore in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper peak fitted well to an exploiter of this nature “said the film was also one of the few horror films” the authentic quality of nightmare. ”

home media access since the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the film on various home video formats, including DVD was released, Laser Disc, DEC, DVD, UMD and Blu-ray Disc was first on video and publish the format in December 1980 by assistants and Video Vestron Video. The film was banned again in the United Kingdom in 1984, during the moral panic surrounding the video nasties. After the retirement of his secretary, Ferman in 1999, the BBFC passed the film uncut on film and video, with certificate of 18 years, almost 25 years after the original version. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally released on DVD in October 1998 for the United States and because of the controversy surrounding the film, May 2000 for the United Kingdom. A revised edition DVD of the film was released in Australia in 2007 after it originally released on DVD in 2001. Ultimate Edition: A Region 1 edition has two CDs released by Dark Sky Films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The statement was accompanied by several interviews, audio and enhanced picture quality and other features such as deleted scenes. Criticism of the release were extremely positive, with critics praising the sound quality and image restoration. A region 0 DVD edition three-CD, entitled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Seriously Ultimate Edition is, in the UK on 3 November 2008 published. Dark Sky Films has a Blu-ray Disc movie on 30th September 2008 published. Blu-ray was then released by Second Sight Films in the UK on 16 November 2009. Legacy and influence

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which was one of the greatest horror movies of all time, greatly influenced the horror genre. Ridley Scott film credited as the inspiration for his film Alien 1979th French director Alexandre Aja credited The Texas Chain Saw Massacre among other films, such an influence on him early in his life. Channel 4 has described as “a triumph of style and atmosphere,” and said, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is probably one of the most influential horror of all time. Halloween by John Carpenter (1978) incorporated the use of small film of blood and gore, and focused instead on voltage. The film was TIME Magazine’s 25 best horror films of all time. In 1990, the film is in the Hall of Fame horror, Tobe Hooper, the award was received. William Friedkin Hooper included in the 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame. New York City Museum of Modern Art, the film has on its permanent collection, validation of their claim as legitimate, unconventional art. Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 6 on their list of “Top 50 cult films”. Rebecca Ascher-Walsh believes the film “paved the way for these future shocks franchises such as Halloween, Evil Dead and The Blair Witch Project”. Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times described the film as “cheap, dirty and out of control” and the film sets and replace the notion of image exploitation. “Total In a survey film in 2005 was carried out, has the film was selected as a horror film of the greatest of all time. Leatherface has a reputation as one of the most disturbing and celebrated in the horror genre, and given opening times The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as one of the 50 most controversial films ever produced.
horror filmmaker and singer of heavy metal Rob Zombie movie sees as a major influence, especially in his film House of 1000 Corpses, published in 2003. Isabel Cristina Pinedo said: “The horror genre has to keep the terror and comedy of the voltage when it is treading in the thin line that separates parody and succeed in the terrorism is … this delicate balance is in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which the decaying corpse of the grandfather including not only the horrible effects and beat sense of humor, but he actually uses one aggravating the other. make “Scott From Doviak Hick flicks as” one of the few horror films the effective use of daylight to spread from the opening whistle of a grisly corpse decomposition over a grave stone in the cemetery. “The book, called Contemporary North American film directors” an alarming inspection of the insanity in the rural areas, more complex and less bloody than the title might connote.111] In the book, horror films, is the opinion of a film critic, that he was “touching of all, and Gore-thriller, in a broader perspective, between horror films, the most efficient ever made …”, and that “the driving force behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something much more terrible than the aberrant sexuality: insanity.112 total] Christopher Null of Filmcritic.com said:” In our collective consciousness, Leatherface and his chainsaw be as iconic as Freddy and his razor or. Jason and his hockey mask “The film was placed 199th in 2008, Empire magazine list of 500 best films of all temps.Adaptations

Main article: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (comics)
short to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has not posted in a success on home video in 1982, Assistant video adaptation of the mass market video games for the Atari 2600 in the game, players take on the role of main antagonist of the film, Leatherface, and attempted murder unauthorized persons while avoiding obstacles such as fences and cow skulls. As one of the first video game horror theme, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre controversial when it was published because of the violent nature of video games and did not sell well was because the game stores refused to stock it. Wizard Video release of other companies, Halloween, has a slightly better, sold the limited number of copies of the game has received popular with collectors items Atari.
Several comic books on the franchise Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based, in 1991 Massacre of North Star Comics law Leatherface.’s The Texas Chainsaw franchise were Avatar Press allowed for use in new comic book stories, the first was published in 2005. lost in 2006, Avatar Press the license from DC Comics Imprint have Wild Storm, published the stories on the new franchise. In June 2007, joined Wildstorm a series of horror comics, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, numbers, monthly promotions and mini-series. The cartoon series with none of the main characters in the original movie (Topps Comics series Leatherface vs Jason is exempt), with the exception of Leatherface, but the 1991 “Leatherface” mini-series was loosely based on the third film based Massacre Chainsaw. Writer Mort Castle said. “The series was very loosely Texas Chainsaw Massacre III are based on, I worked from the original script by David Schow and heavily modified version of a theater director Jeff Burr, but had his hands free to more or less free to write the story as it was said. The first issue sold 30,000 copies.
Kirk Jarvinen drew the first question, and Guy Burwell completed the rest of the series. The cartoons, not to the same restrictions the MPAA has a lot more blood than the finished film. The end and the fates of individual characters, was also changed to adapt the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was designed by North Star Comics, but never abouti.Sequels />

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has spawned three sequels, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakeitled and produced by Michael Bayeleased in 2003. The original film was (replaced 1986) Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, again directed by Hooper. The result was much more graphic and violent than the original, because a larger amount of blood was in the film was banned in Australia for 20 years but finally released on DVD reviewed in a special issue in October 2006. The result was less well with critics, as she felt it from the terror of the original for the sake of humor was lost. black Gunnar Hansen was invited to his role as Leatherface in the second film Reprise, but ultimately went
The film spawned two more suites, Leatherface. Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) was as follows, with a budget dollars. Hooper does not return for the film because of scheduling conflicts with other film spontaneous combustion. The film by Jeff Burr instead. Parcellin Chris was directed Film Threat said ‘C’ is really just another generic horror movie with nothing to recommend except for the connection Leatherface to the most demanding fans. “The third album,” The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation was released in 1995, with Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey. The film is a semi-remake of the original, although it was originally intended to provide a complete remake of the first film.