In what city and state did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre occur?

Question

The actual event...

Answer 1

WACO Texas

Answer 2

there was no "actual event"...

Thomas Hewitt AKA Leatherface is a fictional character. However, the Thomas Hewitt character is very loosely tied to the serial killer 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. "

Source(s):
http://austin.about.com/od/filmindustry/...

Answer 3

It actually happened in a little town by Waco Texas.At the beginning of the movie it says where it actually happened.

Answer 4

It was BASED on an event that happened in 1958 in Minnesota. Ed Gein was the guys name. He never ripped anyone up with a chainsaw.

Answer 5

Try Wikipedia

Answer 6

Was looking for a good answer on this too

Answer 7

ah, Oklahoma?

Answer 8

it depends...