Multiple reshoots were required because he kept catching her. In the Pioneer Special Edition DVD Commentary, Gunnar Hansen, Leatherface's actor, revealed that he had to intentionally slow himself and provide distractions such as sawing tree branches because of how slow Sally's actress ran.
When Leatherface assures him that all the teenagers are dead and cant go to the police, he beats Leatherface anyway for ruining the door.
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While Hooper had intended for the movie to get a PG rating, it was originally rated X an edited resubmission was then rated R.Ĭontroversial upon release, with several countries banning it outright, the film was a great commercial success despite being critically divisive, and has gone on to be hailed as one of the greatest, scariest and most influential horror films ever made. When it was completed, Hooper struggled to find a distributor due to the graphic depictions of violence (although the film is not nearly as bloody as its reputation suggests, prioritizing suspense and atmosphere over explicit gore, and largely keeping depictions of it off-screen and in the viewer's mind). The film was produced on a budget of $140,000 note $876,000 in late 2021, and Hooper cast mainly unknown actors from the local Texan population.
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Hooper did, however, take inspiration for the film from the real-life serial killer Ed Gein (who was also the inspiration for Psycho's Norman Bates, and later for Buffalo Bill of The Silence of the Lambs) and based the character Leatherface on him.
While the film was marketed as based on actual events, this was in large part a deliberate conceit to attract a wider audience and to serve as subtle commentary on the political climate surrounding its release, as Hooper believed similar lies-presented-as-fact were being pushed by the government on a regular basis (on subjects like Watergate and The Vietnam War). The film was completed in 1973 and released on October 1st, 1974. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a seminal slasher film directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper, based on the "true" story of a group of teenagers traveling through rural Texas who happen upon a secluded old house inhabited by the world's most horrifying family - in particular a disturbed young man with an interest in leather masks and amateur butchery.
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