The pair didn’t have much else, other than a modest budget and few credits to their name. When “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” ...
Leatherface lay dormant for more than a decade, until 1986 when Hooper flipped the script of his original film to direct the ...
In the five decades since, though, the film has become regarded as a landmark in horror, though it remains controversial.
When “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” hit theaters in October 1974, audiences were horrified – and enthralled. The plot wasn’t that complex, nor were the characters. But boy, was there grime ...
Entertainment Weekly rates the best (and worst) of Leatherface on film. In October 1974, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre birthed Leatherface, arguably the granddaddy of all celluloid slashers ...
Described as a "grisly little item" by Roger Ebert upon its controversial 1974 release, and deemed too extreme to be screened in Australia for 10 years, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the ...
In 2013, two years before he died ... But in his 2019 book The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified A Rattled Nation, author Joseph Lanza singles out another possible reason for ...
In 1957 investigators found the corpses of Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden when they searched the farmhouse of a handyman named of Edward Gein. The unspeakable details of what was found in that ...
“If there is any justice at all,” he wrote in this newspaper, “‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ now at showcase ... actor Gunnar Hansen in his 2013 memoir, “Chain Saw Confidential ...