I think it might have been based on 'true events', but not one 'true story' that there was a family in Texas killing, making meat of people and selling it, but from several different stories made up into one event. Does anyone know the answer? My son has a bet with his roommate.
2006-09-21 16:01:28 · 19 answers · asked by Mylana 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The only connection with a true event is the lead character, Leatherface. He was loosely based on Ed Gein.
2006-09-21 16:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The film, like the films Psycho, Deranged and The Silence of the Lambs, was losely inspired by Ed Gein. Gein did wear human skin, but he acted alone and did not use a chainsaw. Although the film's opening would have one believe that the events are factual, it is merely a scare tactic, called the false document technique, to frighten the audience. Libraries in Burkburnett, Texas and nearby Wichita Falls regularly receive requests for copies of newspaper articles related to the false actual events.
2006-09-21 16:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by JJStokes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I saw the newest version of the movie, my friends and I raced home to check online to see how "true" the story way. It is very very loosely based on a serial killer in Wisconsin. I can't remember the exact details but when he was caught they found parts of human bodies all over the house. There were chairs made out of bones and organs in formaldyhyde (spelling?) in the fridge. I think they also found out that he was trying to make clothes out of skin and that he also ate parts of his victims. He also had a lot of bodies buried outside in his yard. The story from the movie is fabricated, it never happened in Texas and to my knowledge there was no involvement with families or a group of kids. The character from "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector, was apparently also based on this character. It sucks, well doesn't suck exactly because you'd never want the movie to actually be true but Holloywood just uses the phrase "Based on a "true" story or on "true" events" as a marketing push even if there is only a shred of truth to it. The "Mothman Prophecies" is the same way and I have yet to find a true connection to it. Hold on ... I'm going to find the website that I read all this about .....
You know what? .... The website listed in the first answer pretty much says it all. In regards to your sons bet ... I wish him luck because it could be argued either way that he went with. Hope the wager wasn't too big if he loses! P.S. You're a pretty cool mom to be looking this up for him! I'm surprised he asked you but I guess he knew you would find the answer!
2006-09-21 16:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by caroline 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly there was no real family of cannibalistic chainsaw murderers slaughtering people in Texas, nor any actual series of chainsaw-related killings. Writer/director Tobe Hooper said the inspiration for the film came from his spotting a display of chainsaws while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store.
I was in the Montgomery Ward's out in Capital Plaza. I had been working on this other story for some months — about isolation, the woods, the darkness, and the unknown. It was around holiday season, and I found myself in the Ward's hardware department, and I was still kind of percolating on this idea of isolation and such. And those big crowds have always gotten to me. There were just so many people to go through. And I was just standing there in front of an upright display of chainsaws. And the focus just racked from my eyeball to the people to the saws — and the idea popped. I said, "Ooh, I know how I could get out of this place fast — if I just start one of these things up and make that sound." Of course I didn't. That was just a fantasy.
Hooper has also said that he based the character of Leatherface on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin farmer who robbed graves (his own mother's supposedly among them), allegedly engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism, and murdered at least two women in the 1950s (one of whose corpses was found hanging naked — decapitated and disembowelled — in Gein's residence). As Gunnar Hansen, the actor who portrayed Leatherface, notes in his Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2006-09-21 16:08:06 · answer #4 · answered by ☼Earthbound Misfit☼ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Director Tobe Hooper claims to have got the idea for the film while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store. While thinking of a way to get out through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.
Based on this I'd say no.
The trailer said based on true events - but that was just marketing
2006-09-21 16:09:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is based on a true person. Ed Gein was a negrophiliac who was arrested for having intercourse with corpses and making clothing out of skin. I think he killed a couple of people and lived remotedly..I want to say TX, but I 'm not sure.
The fact that I know the answer to this is somewhat troubling...
2006-09-21 16:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely right actually it was based on 2 different events.....if you get the DVD with bonus features its alike a double disc set the 2nd disc has a story about a man named Ed gein on it and teh part in the furnace room where had all all these bodys and hook and torture devices was true...as for the rest it was added on to it because noone knows for sure what exactly happened with that.
2006-09-21 16:04:47 · answer #7 · answered by lildevilchild_87 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes and no. It was based on true 'events', but not a 'true story'. Like mentioned earlier, Leatherfaces character is based on Ed Gein. He liked to 'wear' his victims skin. Also like the character Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.
2006-09-21 16:05:46 · answer #8 · answered by ♫♫I'mforgiven♫♫ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not based on a trues story, It's loosely based on the Ed Gein Murders
2006-09-21 16:47:32 · answer #9 · answered by darthdemlluin 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the correct term for the movie to use i feel should be loosely based on true events. of course hollywood is gonna make it ten times worse to sell a movie! i didn't know leather face was based off of gein wow that is quite a stretch
2016-03-27 01:38:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋