Numerous critics have remarked upon its lack of explicit violence, instead showcasing Hooper's skill (utilizing European and Russian-style montage) to allow viewers to fill in the blanks themselves.
In addition to its political allegories, the film is remembered for its unexpected tasteful artistry. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre alone influenced the likes of Alien, Halloween, and Blair Witch. And it endures all these years later, remembered today as a profoundly influential classic of American horror up there with Edgar Allan Poe and the Universal Monsters. This also meant Dugan sucked Burns' real blood.īut the scene exists.
On-set tensions with getting the scene completed rose to the point that Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface, cut Burns for real. The knife contained a tube of fake blood that was to be licked by actor John Dugan from Burns' finger. The infamous dinner scene, where Marilyn Burns' Sally wakes up tied to a chair to see cannibals eating her dead friends, had a broken knife prop. I remain conflicted due to its numerous behind the scenes incidents, such as one revealed in Joseph Lanza's 2019 book The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation. I'm hesitant to say the misery endured by the crew was worth it. Marilyn Burns, as Sally, in 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974). Burns from driving around the countryside. The film's story also called for dead dog and armadillo corpses to litter the floor those are real, found by art director Robert A. The combined stench and misery both in front of and behind the scenes - conditions that would make production an absolute no-go today - made production "intolerably putrid." For continuity, the actors wore the same clothing, sweating in them all throughout production. “Man was the real monster here.”įilmed in a 1900s farmhouse near Round Rock, Texas, the film shot over an unbelievably humid summer where temperatures peaked at 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Man was the real monster here, just wearing a different face, so I put a literal mask on the monster in my film."Īngered by the misinformation campaigns carried out by President Nixon over Watergate, the '73 oil crisis, and the Vietnam War, Hooper purposefully misled his audiences and advertised Texas Chain Saw as a "true" story. He told horror magazine Rue Morguein January 2005, "The lack of sentimentality and the brutality of things.showing brains spilled all over the road. Traumatized by the manmade violence broadcasted on television, Hooper borrowed from the real-life crimes of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein to illustrate a portrait of nihilistic isolation. Released in 1974 and produced on a conservative budget of $140,000, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is Hooper's metaphorical treatise on the American cultural temperature of the mid-'70s. So if you've not yet subjected yourself to its delightful darkness and traumatizing artistry, now is your chance. But The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, an enduring American masterpiece from the late Tobe Hooper that spawned one of the first horror franchises ever, is leaving Netflix on February 21. I know I just spoiled the perfect ending to a 45-year-old horror movie. The indeterminable madness of the moment permeates the picture even as it cuts to the black relief of the credits. In swinging the saw, Leatherface's violent frustration morphs into a graceful dancer's spin. His prey, a teenaged girl named Sally (Marilyn Burns) whose blonde hair is coated in blood and sweat, makes a daring escaping on the back of a pick-up, her own hysteria leading to laughter. Leatherface, a masked butcher with a bloated wrestler's build, wildly swings a roaring chainsaw before a fiery morning sun. One of the most haunting images of The Texas Chain Saw Massacrehappens in daylight.
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