im not really sure if hes real or not people say he isnt wats ur opinion if u watched the film are there any websites u can tell me about
2006-10-07 11:49:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Thomas Hewitt AKA Leatherface is a fictional character. However, the Thomas Hewitt character is very loosely tied to the actions of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein.
Who is Ed Gein?
Ed Gein (1906-1984) was a real person. Although found not guilty by reason of insanity, Ed Gein is believed responsible for the deaths of at least two women in Wisconsin in the early 1950s.
However, it was Gein's fascination with his dead mother and with dead bodies that provided the inspiration for a whole series of literary and movie monsters, most notably Thomas Hewitt or Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Norman Bates in Psycho, and the Buffalo Bill character found in The Silence of the Lambs.
Whether from the bodies of people he killed or dug up from the graveyard, Ed Gein filled his home with such things as human skin lampshades and a necklace of human lips.
He also fashioned complete costumes from human skin and body parts to include dead skin masks (no doubt the inspiration for Leatherface). Known to sometimes dress up like women or impersonate his mother, perhaps that was the inspiration for the cross-dressing version of Thomas Hewitt / Leatherface of the 1994/1997 The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Although bits of the life and crimes of Ed Gein are seen in Thomas Hewitt, Hewitt is a fictional character from a movie - not a real person. And the events of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre are a work of fiction as well, not a true story.
2006-10-07 12:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by steamroller98439 6 · 10⤊ 2⤋
Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2016-12-11 14:48:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Hewitt
2016-09-30 04:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Hewitt is real he is in a Texas Prison. He inspired the Texas chain saw but Ed Gene did not ED did not use a chain saw. Thomas Hewitt's mother died giving birth and he was left in a dumpster for a women to find him then raise home working at their local butchery.
2016-05-14 10:38:32 · answer #4 · answered by Tripp 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes Thomas Hewitt was a real person. This video was recorded in 1972 (the black and white part). This is also the beginning of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake in 2003 with Jessica Beil.
2014-04-10 08:40:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
Thomas Hewitt was a real man. Ed Gein was a real man. Both of them murdered people and both of them skinned their victims after they killed them. Ed Gein was from Wisconsin. Thomas was from Texas. Ed would kill people and then do things like take their faces and skin them and use that skin for lampshades. Thomas, however was a little different. You see Thomas was bullied his whole life for being stupid and he had a major skin disease on his face so he had tumors all over his face and a severe case of skin disfigurement and it looked really bad and although he couldn't help it - people would make fun of him for it. The movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on Thomas. Watch the 2003 movie. It shows you evidence from the evidence locker of the 33 people's DNA from his house, the chainsaw, and him in a video taken from investigators in his house before he kills them. Ed was real. Thomas - real. But the movie is based on the true events that happened in his life and what he did to people.
2015-04-25 03:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by Rilley 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
So, true story or not? 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.
2006-10-07 12:26:39 · answer #7 · answered by Try Google!!! 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No,the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based off of Ed Gein.Go to wikipedia.com and type Ed Gein in and read the story.
2006-10-07 12:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by dr_duder12 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yesss I in fact am Thomas Hewitt... I left the night the cops took over are house for the so called vilonent things I did .... (Pussys) And bought my first computer were I now have given up the life of murder for pornogrophy ...... But hay... Addiction is addiction so kids .... Don't do this at home......
2014-04-25 17:46:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, he's not real. That movie is not a true story. It's loosely based off the serial killer Ed Gein, who I think was from Wisconsin.
2006-10-07 12:09:49 · answer #10 · answered by cer798 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋