Hooper has cited changes in the cultural and political landscape as central influences on the film. During development, Hooper used the working titles of Headcheese and Leatherface. He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin Gein inspired other horror films such as Psycho (1960) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He had already developed a story involving the elements of isolation, the woods, and darkness. 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 and as a documentary cameraman. Head bludgeoned twice with sledgehammer, hacked apart with chainsawīack impaled on meat hook, frozen in freezerĬorpse found by his uncle Lefty in part 2 in 1986 Sally jumps into the back of a passing pick-up truck and as she is driven away, she laughs hysterically at Leatherface who swings his chainsaw in frustration. They climb out the other side and as Leatherface pursues them, the truck driver hits Leatherface in the head with a wrench, causing him to drop him chainsaw and cut his leg. Leatherface runs at Sally, chainsaw ablaze and the driver of the eighteen wheeler helps Sally into the truck, and Leatherface begins to saw at the door. But an eighteen wheeler drives by and runs the hitchhiker over, killing him. Sally runs to the road, with Leatherface and the hitchhiker giving chase. Infuriated, the hitchhiker grabs the hammer-letting go of Sally-and in all the confusion, Sally breaks free and jumps through a window outside just as the sun has begun to rise. Sally is physically and verbally tormented by the demented family, for what seems like hours, and she is almost killed when they try to get Grandpa (the barely alive man that Sally found earlier) to kill Sally with a sledgehammer, but he is too weak to do so. Sally is tied up at the dinner table and it is revealed that the hitchhiker, the proprietor and Leatherface are all one cannibalistic family. Inside, the proprietor consoles her and then beats her with a broom, ties her up and shoves her in his truck where he drives her to the house. She runs into the woods again until she comes upon a gas station. Sally then is attacked by Leatherface and she leaps through an upstairs window to escape. She races inside and upstairs, she finds the remains of an elderly couple, the man barely alive and the woman, dead and mummified. She endlessly is chased through the woods by Leatherface wielding the chainsaw (in one of the most remarkable chase scenes in movie history) until Sally finds the house where all of her friends were butchered. Sally flees into the dark woods, Leatherface in pursuit. All of a sudden, Leatherface leaps from the shadows and murders Franklin with a chainsaw. Night comes soon, and Sally tries to push Franklin along the uneven forest trail in the darkness. Leatherface appears and bashes Jerry with a sledgehammer. He finds the house, and he goes inside and enters a back room where he discovers Pam locked in a freezer, barely alive. She then is forced to witness Leatherface dismembering Kirk with a chainsaw.Įvening falls, and Jerry goes to look for Kirk and Pam. She flees the house, but Leatherface catches her on the front porch and drags her back inside, where he hangs her on a meathook in the back room. Pam goes into the old house where she stumbles upon a room filled with bones and live chickens. Leatherface murders Kirk via blow to the head with a sledgehammer and drags him into the back room. Upon entering a secret room, he comes face-to-face with a large man wearing a mask made out of human skin- Leatherface. Pam sits outside while Kirk explores inside the house. But instead, they find a house with a running generator. Tired of Pam and Kirk's annoying foreplay, Franklin tells the couple about a nearby lake and the two set off. The teenagers arrive at a gas station where the proprietor tells them the tanks are empty and the gang sets off to the home, barely managing to make it to the plantation mansion. The group shoves the crazy man out of the van and drive off the hitchhiker smears blood all over the van as the group drives away. He takes a picture of the gang, cuts himself with a razor and then cuts Franklin. The group later picks up a strange-looking hitchhiker who bumbles incoherently and crazily. On the way, they stop at a local cemetery so Sally can relieve her concerns of her grandfather's grave being vandalized. Sally Hardesty, her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin, Sally's boyfriend Jerry, her best friend Pam and Pam's boyfriend Kirk are driving to an old homestead in Texas. The film opens with an eerie prelude, including an introduction and a radio broadcast about several gruesome graverobbings. Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.
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