In the film, scenes of skinned and boiling entrails over a large cauldron and the “dinner” sequence where Sally is tormented imply that the family of slaughterhouse workers are cannibals. Although he previously had produced, directed, co-written, edited and photographed the low-budget 1969 feature Eggshells, that picture had a very limited, regional distribution. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was Hooper's first nationally released film. The film was the first onscreen credit for comedy actor John Larroquette. Star Marilyn Burns, who played the sole survivor, “Sally,” and executive editor Bill Parsley were with the Texas Film Commission. Co-writer and director Tobe Hooper was a film instructor at the university. Īccording to the HR review, many of those who participated in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were former film students from the University of Texas, Austin. The film was the first onscreen credit for comedy. Modern sources add that Gein fashioned masks and “keepsakes” from the bones and skins of the bodies.Īccording to the HR review, many of those who participated in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were former film students from the University of Texas, Austin. Gein, a handyman who resided in Plainfield, WI, was arrested after police found, according to the Var review, “dismembered bodies and disinterred corpses shrewn all over his farm house,” and later charged him with two murders. The book was also the inspiration for the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, as well as the 1991 Orion production, Silence of the Lambs. Bloch’s book had been the basis for the Paramount 1960 release Psycho (see entry), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. heard in voice-over claims that the events in the story are true, but according to the Var review and many other contemporary and modern sources, the film was inspired by the novel Psycho, by Robert Bloch, a fictionalized account of the life of Ed Gein (1906-1984). Before the film, a lengthy written statement that also is. Although many reviews, articles and some publicity for the film list the title as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, onscreen credits spell “chain saw” as two words. An early working title for the film was Leatherface.
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