The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Tobe Hooper
Marilyn Burns
Allen Danziger
Paul A Partain
William Vail
Teri Mcminn
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A group of teenagers on the road in Texas stop off at the wrong farm and encounter a family gone awry. Once abbatoir workers, the decay of the Southern rural economy has left them unemployed, and the directionless father and sons take to using their butchering skills on passing people. One by one, the kids encounter members of the grisly family.
Director
Tobe Hooper
Cast
Marilyn Burns
Allen Danziger
Paul A Partain
William Vail
Teri Mcminn
Edwin Neal
Jim Siedow
Gunnar Hansen
John Dugan
John Larroquette
Crew
W E Barnes
Wayne Bell
Robert A Burns
Larry Carroll
Jay M Harding
Kim Henkel
Kim Henkel
Kim Henkel
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
Robert Knudson
Ted Nicolaou
Jay Parsley
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl
Sallye Richardson
Sallye Richardson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
If I have any more fun today I don't think I can take it!- Franklin
They just shoot a bullet in their head, and then retract it. It's just BOOM-shht-BOOM-shht.- Franklin
Franklin, I like meat, please change the subject!- Sally
I think we just picked up Dracula.- Franklin
I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it.- Old Man
Those girls... those girls don't wanna go messin' round no old house!- Old Man
Trivia
Marilyn Burns, whose character was chased by Leatherface through the undergrowth actually cut herself on the branches quite badly, so a lot of the blood on her body and clothes is real.
The actor 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.
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
Director Tobe Hooper based Leatherface on mass-murderer Ed Gein, who was arrested in 1957.
The movie wasn't released in Australia until the early 1980s.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2014
Released in United States Fall October 1, 1974
Released in United States on Video October 13, 1993
Shown at South By Southwest (SXSW) Film & Media Conference in Austin, Texas March 10-18, 1995.
Released in United States 2014 (Special Events - 40th Anniversary Screening)
Released in United States Fall October 1, 1974
Third sequel to Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (USA/1974). The others are Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2" (USA/1986) and Jeff Burr's "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" (USA/1990).
Released in United States on Video October 13, 1993
Feature directorial debut for scripter Kim Henkel, writer of the Tobe Hooper's original 1974 classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Began shooting July 17, 1989.
Began shooting May 5, 1986.
Completed shooting August 26, 1989.
Completed shooting prior to July 4, 1986.
Film was originally rated X.
New Line Cinema acquired this film from Bryanston Pictures. It was subsequently acquired by Castle Hill Productions.
Limited re-release in United Kingdom December 11, 1998.
Release in USA January 12, 1990.
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