2006-12-04 08:17:10 · 35 answers · asked by fill in the blank dude 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
just a story!
2006-12-04 08:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by Celeste P 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is a fake. The author loosely based it on a killer up in Wisconsin...but there was no Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
[edit] Connection to actual events
The film, like the films Psycho, Deranged, and The Silence of the Lambs, was loosely 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. [5]
[edit] Cultural references
2006-12-04 08:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by ÐIESEŁ ÐUB 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story was based on Ed Gein. Three characters were loosely based on him. Leatherface of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill from, Silence of The Lambs, and doctor Hannibal Lecter, from Silence of The Lambs.
2006-12-04 19:44:43 · answer #3 · answered by zeroartmac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was very, very loosely based on the life of Ed Gein . . . There's more information in the source link below! It's quite interesting.
2006-12-04 08:19:59 · answer #4 · answered by wind_blow_shame 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho and Silence of the Lambs are all based loosely on one person, Edward Gein. It's supposed to be based on him, however all the movies exaggerated the story quite a bit. Look it up, Edward Gein. Most websites will tell you that Texas Chainsaw was "loosely" based on him. Also, Ed Gein only killed 2 women. He dug up most of his stuff from graves. The song "Nothing to Gein" by Mudvayne is also based on him.
2006-12-04 08:20:55 · answer #5 · answered by Raye 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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.
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).
Police eventually discovered the remains of 15 different mutilated female bodies in Gein's filthy farmhouse, parts of which (mostly skin and bones) had been fashioned into a variety of bizarre objects (including drums, bowls, masks, bracelets, purses, knife sheaths, leggings, chairs, lampshades, and shirts), as well as a refrigerator full of human organs.
Gein's story inspired (at least in part) the Norman Bates character — a young man who murders women out of a twisted sense of loyalty to his dead mother — in the classic thriller Psycho, and the Buffalo Bill character — a transvestite serial killer who murders women to make use of their skin — in the horror novel Silence of the Lambs. Although the the Leatherface character and the events depicted in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre differ in many substantial ways from what is known about the life and activities of Ed Gein (most notably in that Gein was apparently far more a grave robber than a murderer, and he didn't go around slicing up live victims with a chainsaw), there are definite similarities between the film and the Ed Gein story as well (e.g., hanging a murder victim's corpse in the house, making functional use of the skin from dead bodies, elements of cannibalism). Whether these similiarities are sufficiently close to justify the statement that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was "based on a true story" is up to filmgoers to decide for themselves.
2006-12-04 08:31:14 · answer #6 · answered by †ᴰᴲᵛᴵᴸ† 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, the story as told in the movie did not actually happen. But, a similar case did happen in rural Texas. Some teens car broke down and were murdered. To the best of my knowledge, some of their skins were used to make clothing.
2006-12-04 08:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's "supposedly" based on a true story, but most of the story is not true including the characters. It is based on the killings of Ed Gein. If you look up in Travis County Texas, the most brutal killing was of two Mormon missionaries who were cut up by a taxidermist, but as for the college students being hacked up by so-called "leather face" not true. It was a made up story based on Ed Gein.
2006-12-04 08:20:59 · answer #8 · answered by Island Princess 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was based on a man who killed women and made lampshades out of their skin, but it wasn't in Texas. The chainsaw thing and Leatherface's family was all thought up by the writers
2006-12-04 08:20:49 · answer #9 · answered by Shannon L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The actual, specific events in movie never actually happened. The method in which Leatherface killed and collected bodies and the way in which he used the body parts is based on murderer Ed Gein. Ed Gein wasn't from Texas, he was from Wisconsin.
2006-12-04 08:19:49 · answer #10 · answered by Joy M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I heard that it actually happend and that it actually happend in Wisconsin and they just called it The Texas Chainsaw Massacre cause it sounded better than The Wisconsin Chainsaw Massacre.I dont know if its all true seein I heard it from my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-04 09:02:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋