was he? i mean, i no it was based of a dude who really killed some teens, and used their faces as a mask, but was the chainsaw thing what really happened? and uh, the cannibal family???
2007-08-13 12:44:37 · 8 answers · asked by ruthlessHBK 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Yes there was a real person called leather face that did commit several acts of murder and cannibalism.................... And they hunted him down And eventually killed him Mostly out of fear.... But never the less he was a very real historical person..........................
2007-08-13 13:05:53 · answer #1 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got ideas for the movie from a 1957 murder case involving Wisconsin farmer Ed Gein.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~gatekeeper/true.html
http://media.www.theseahawk.org/media/storage/paper287/news/2006/10/26/Lifestyles/Inspired.By.A.True.Story.The.Truth.Behind.The.texas.Chainsaw.Massacre-2402737.shtml
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp
Here are some articles about the case.
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/gein_cf.htm
http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/6923/truth.html
2007-08-13 20:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by SARAH W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is fiction. However, Leatherface is based on a man in Wisconsin named Ed Gein who, among other things, made lampshades out of human skin. He also was the inspiration for Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs and Norman Bates in Psycho.
2007-08-13 20:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the cannibal stuff was real because the real guy sawed there heads into thin slices and ate them. There is a documentary about him and his family just can't remember the name. It was a good one.
2007-08-13 19:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by fabianlesley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. not real. those movies are based on edard gein. he dug up dead woman and made faces of them and body suits of thier bodiess. wikipedia ed gein for more info.
2007-08-13 21:55:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read an article someone on here posted about him that is sooo nasty.
Yeah he was real.
2007-08-13 20:56:23 · answer #6 · answered by S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know sounds like a good story.
2007-08-14 09:14:03 · answer #7 · answered by kim t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes all of it was real
2007-08-13 20:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by Majikninja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋