Years ago i heard that while the story is real (well for howeever much) it did not happen in texas but in Minisota or somwhere around there.
Can anyone give me some information on what really happened and where?
2006-12-30 14:51:51 · 13 answers · asked by clomtancy 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a fake movie wit ha fake story and fake killers that was written and directed by Tobe Hooper. It's based on the killer Ed Gein from Plainfield, Wisconsin whom had sex with dead bodies just days after they were buried. He killed people and he used their skin and skulls to make bowls, lampshades. He made belts out of nipples. He also made an armchair of human skin. But The Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't the only film that was inspired by Ed Gein. Ed Gein also inspired the killer Norman Bates from the movie Psycho and killer Buffalo Bill from The Silence Of The Lambs. Texas Chainsaw wasn't a true story but it's based on one of the greatest killers to ever exist. He's also the second greatest killer ever in Wisconsin. The first is Jeffrey Dahmer.
2006-12-30 15:19:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story is fiction. Tobe Hooper, (who created the film) said that the character of Leatherface is based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin farmer who murdered people and robbed graves in the 1950s and cut up the bodies, eating parts and wearing parts. Mr. Gein (pronounced Geen) was a pretty sick guy. I know about this because I grew up in Wisconsin in the 50s and 60s and EVERYBODY knew about Ed Gein!
For more information about the basis of the film go to the Snopes Urban Legends page at http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp
2006-12-30 15:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by HooBoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought it was loosely based on Ed Gein's killings and the whole young adults coming home from a concert thingy was a made up story. There was a brutal murder by a taxidermist in Travis County, Texas in where the guy skinned the two young men, but other than that nothing else happened in Travis County Texas that brutal. Here's some info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_chainsaw_massacre
It's under actual events.
2006-12-30 14:56:38 · answer #3 · answered by Island Princess 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is loosely based on Minnesotan Ed Gein who used a revolver to shoot women after which he skinned them and the rest is history.
2006-12-30 15:00:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is loosely based on serial killer Ed Gein who was a cannibal, grave robber, and necrophiliac. I think it happened in Texas sometime in the mid 50's. Ed Gein was found insane and sent to a nut house where he died sometime in the 80's(I think) There is a movie that is called Ed Gein.
2006-12-30 15:10:44 · answer #5 · answered by tootsie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wasent really a guy in a chainsaw chasing people......The movie was inspired by Ed gein who was a "real life" serial killer and a sick son of a *****.......
I got this paragraph underneath from:http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp
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
Hopes this helps.........
2006-12-30 14:57:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is based on Ed Gein. He was a serial killer from Minnesota. He did not wear human masks or swing a chainsaw, but did cut off human skin and keep it for other perverted pleasures. Also, he acted alone, there was no family.
2006-12-30 14:57:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It did happen in Travis country right outside of Austin Texas. There are rumors that the Hewitt House has been moved but if you talk to the right people, you can still go to the condemned house where it all happened.
2006-12-30 14:55:27 · answer #8 · answered by Kevin M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this movie is based on what happened in Minnesota in the late 50's. the guys name was ed guien. he apparently was a loner and very strange. when a woman disappeared, the investigation led to him. what was found in his house was lampshades made from human skin and other atrocities. in the deluxe version of the first version of the original movie, the second CD contained original footage of the investigation and reprints of the crime scene photos.
2006-12-30 15:35:21 · answer #9 · answered by rita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the whole Ed Gein thing is right on they even made a movie about Eddie Gein.
2006-12-31 06:28:12 · answer #10 · answered by elbarto41920 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋