Origins and inspiration for the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
“Who will survive and what will be left of
them?”
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) is
one of the most significant and box office successful horror films. Texas Chainsaw
Massacre is an independent film written, produced and directed by Tobe Hooper the majority of film makers and actors
were students from University of Texas at Austin. The film Texas Chainsaw Massacre has
a huge impact on film industry and it’s considered that redefined the “last
girl” horror film concept.
Tobe Hooper's inspiration for Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a “meat movies”
according to a large number of very well established film critics and academics
because the main concept of the film beyond the title! The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre is not a film about Chainsaws and not a film about a massacre. It’s a film about a cannibals family in Texas
In the beginning of cinema the act of
cannibalism was not shown on camera, films like “Dr X” (Michael Curtiz, 1932)
and “Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (George King, 1936) were the first films
about fictional stories of cannibals.
Four decades later, in 1963 HG Lewis a southern
independent filmmaker filmed the prototype for the gore, the legendary film
“Blood Feast” and for the first time in cinema audience watched the
cannibalistic intentions of fictional characters but there are restrictions to
limb – lopping and tongue – pulling aplenty and there is no “human flesh
consumed”. In 1972, Gary Sherman directed in London
the film “Death Line” (in USA Russell Square
Tobe Hooper’s idea about Texas Chainsaw Massacre
One Christmas during Tobe Hooper’s early life,
the teenager Tobe Hooper was trapped in the hardware department of Montgomery
Ward’s by the throng of seasonal shoppers. Tobe Hooper was looking around to
find a way to escape he saw a chainsaw and immediately realized that the only
way to get out from his trap was to use the chainsaw – the broad outline of the
film’s plot and feel followed soon after.
The real crime case (cannibal case) of Wisconsin grave ripper and ghoul Edward Gein influenced
the creation of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Kim Henkel co written the script of
the film and during one interview she revealed that a local real crime case
known as “Candyman Murders” influenced the script development and the creation
of the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Also, Tobe Hooper said that EC Comics
influenced him for the creation of plot structure.
You can see a Tobe Hooper interview about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series
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