Is the texas chainsaw massacre movie really based on true events?

Answer 1

The first one was. At the beginning of the sequil, it was posted that the only survivor died while in a mental hospital.

My first husband lived in Texas at that time and can still remember the details on the television news. He lived about 15 miles from the actual location.

Answer 2

I think it was true.There are a alot of weird people out there in this world.You never know what kind of people are out there....living in areas where no one has gone before!.Texas chainsaw opened up a whole new box of worms for all those directors that have made cannible movies since this came out.But for once,I'd like to see a family actually survive one of these movies!.Thxx,Mel :)

Answer 3

most times when they say "Based off true events"... they leave out the part that only a minor detail was true. The story could be completely false but there could be a replica of a house or they could mention the name of a real family and then say the story was based off true events... you cant really trust it when people say that. Their credibility is fallacious at best.

Answer 4

Not exactly. It was based off of Ed Gein, a notorious serial killer, but not from Texas and not because he did those things...he was sick and twisted, but it wasn't exactly like that. I was born in Travis County (where the movie took place) and there was never such a family there.

Answer 5

Edward Gein served as inspiration for that and others..

excerpt from link

The purpose of this page is to provide information on Ed Gein, the 'real' American Psycho. It is in "no way" to serve a tribute to this man or his ghastly deeds, but rather to recognize him as a source that forever shaped the way we watch horror today. He served as a model for many of the greatest villains to ever ravage across the silver screen: Norman Bates, LEATHERFACE, and the crazed killer, Buffalo Bill from "Silence of the Lambs". He deeds went on to influence the storytelling of such films as "Maniac", "Three on a Meathook", and "Deranged".

http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm

Warning!...graphic image

another excerpt
There, the gruesome evidence proved that Gein's bizarre obsessions had finally exploded into murder, and much, much worse. In the woodshed of the farm was the naked, headless body of Bernice Worden, hanging upside down from a meat hook and slit open down the front. Her head and intestines were discovered in a box, and her heart on a plate in the dining room. The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pilled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of human organs. The four posts on Gein's bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. The stunned searchers also uncovered a soup bowls fashioned from skulls, a shoebox full of female genitalia, faces stuffed with newspapers and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls, and a "mammary vest" flayed from the torso of a woman. Gein later confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.

Answer 6

yes it is, even in the movie its says that it base on a true story

Answer 7

No but it was inspired by Ed Gein who would wear human skin

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Yes!!!! It's really scary know that the killer never was found

Answer 10

yes, but looong time ago. kind of sucks for the people their