So I Was watching the original "TCM" w/my daughters the other night and I clarified that while the story IS based on "true events" ...... very few of them are in the movie
I mean .... there was no Chainsaw.......the murders didn't happen in Texas......and.....if I recall correctly .....only 2 people were killed by Ed Gein.......so it wasn't "massacre'' either......
OTHERWISE --- yeah,......based on true events (which were certainly gruesome enough)
Things that Tobe Hooper included that WERE based on actual events:
The concept for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arose in the early 1970s while Tobe Hooper was working as an assistant film director at the University of Texas at Austin .... He had already developed a story involving the elements of isolation, the woods, and darkness......and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin....
Das Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre
....I think that's about it.......everything else - including the intro that names the brother/sister combo and Hooper's original opening sequence that stated "WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS A TRUE STORY...." ----- were all fabricated
(inspired by a lying government ala: Watergate, Vietnam and the '73 Oil Crisis according to Hooper!)
I mean .... there was no Chainsaw.......the murders didn't happen in Texas......and.....if I recall correctly .....only 2 people were killed by Ed Gein.......so it wasn't "massacre'' either......
OTHERWISE --- yeah,......based on true events (which were certainly gruesome enough)
Things that Tobe Hooper included that WERE based on actual events:
- Grave robbing - not just once or twice either.....
- Desecration of corpses / building "Things" with their remains
- Mr Gein DID Like wearing the skin apparently .... so "leather face" has a foothold on reality (only time you'll EVER hear THAT in your life)
- The idea of a retarded accomplice was true --- Gein recruited someone to help with his "experiments" .... and that person was severely impaired.............(((I think it was part of the job description))))
The concept for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arose in the early 1970s while Tobe Hooper was working as an assistant film director at the University of Texas at Austin .... He had already developed a story involving the elements of isolation, the woods, and darkness......and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin....
Das Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre
....I think that's about it.......everything else - including the intro that names the brother/sister combo and Hooper's original opening sequence that stated "WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS A TRUE STORY...." ----- were all fabricated
(inspired by a lying government ala: Watergate, Vietnam and the '73 Oil Crisis according to Hooper!)