#The texas chain saw massacre real movie

Leatherface had 'lines' in the script that were gibberish with little side notes indicating what he was trying to say.Hansen decided that Leatherface was mentally retarded and never learned to talk properly, so he went to a school for the mentally challenged and watched how they moved and listened to them talk to get a feel for the character. Tobe Hooper allowed Gunnar Hansen to develop Leatherface as he saw fit, under his supervision.They used a real one because a human skeleton from India is far cheaper then a fake plastic skeleton.

#The texas chain saw massacre real movie

The human skeleton in the house at the end of the movie was a real human skeleton.

They rented out their house to the film crew and continued to stay there during the entire shoot.

A family was actually living in the house that served as the Sawyer family house in the later half of the movie.

In 1999, after the censors finally changed their policy, they took the plunge, and passed it uncut, for the cinema and video, after 25 years, since they first banned it. It was banned again in 1977, when the censors' attempts to cut it were unsuccessful, (for the purposes of a wider release), then it was banned again in 1984, due to the growing controversy involving 'video nasties'.

The film was rejected by the British film censors in 1975, but it did get a limited cinema release in the London area thanks to the GLC (Greater London Council).

The chainsaw used in this film was a Poulan 306A, with a piece of black tape covering the Poulan logo in order to avoid a possible lawsuit.

The film was shot in chronological order.

and I had been in Vietnam, with people trying to kill me, so I guess that shows how bad it was.' Edwin Neal who played the hitch-hiker claimed 'Filming that scene was the worst time of my life. This took about 36 hours, during a heat wave where the average temperature was over 100 degrees, with a large portion of it spent filming the dinner scene, sitting in a room filled with dead animals and rotting food.

After getting into the old-age makeup, John Dugan decided that he did not ever want to go through the process again, meaning that all the scenes with him had to be filmed in the same session before he could take the makeup off.

When it was first released, the film was so horrifying that people actually walked out on sneak previews for it.

While thinking of a way to get out through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.

Director Tobe Hooper claims to have got the idea for the film while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store.

The movie wasn't released in Australia until the early 1980s.

During the dinner scene towards the end of the film, when Leatherface cuts the girl's finger, he actually does cut her finger because they couldn't get the fake blood to come out of the tube behind the blade.The actress whose character was hung up on a meat hook was actually held up by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.The film was originally entitled 'Headcheese', but was filmed as 'Leatherface', then changed again at the last minute to 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre'