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Description of this Poster The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film produced and directed by Tobe Hooper from a story and screenplay by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, who play Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the Hitchhiker, the Landlord, and Leatherface, respectively. The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old estate. The film was billed as being based on true events in order to appeal to a wider audience and act as a subtle commentary on the political climate of the time. Although the character of Leatherface and some details of the story were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, the plot is largely fictional. This is the first film in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
Hooper produced the film for less than $140,000 ($800,000 adjusted for inflation) and used a cast of relatively unknown actors drawn primarily from Central Texas, where the film was shot. The limited budget forced Hooper to shoot long hours, seven days a week, in order to complete the film as quickly as possible and reduce equipment rental costs. Due to the film’s violent content, Hooper had difficulty finding a distributor, but the film was eventually purchased by Louis Perano of the Bryanston Distributing Company. Hooper limited the amount of gore on screen in hopes of securing a PG rating, but the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rated it R. The film encountered similar difficulties internationally, being banned in several countries, and many theaters stopped showing it in response to complaints about its violence.
Although The Texas Chainsaw Massacre received a mixed reception from critics, it was highly profitable, grossing over $30 million at the domestic box office, equivalent to approximately $150.8 million in 2019, and selling over 16.5 million tickets in 1974. It has since earned a reputation as one of the best and most influential horror films. He is credited with introducing several elements common to the slasher genre, including the use of power tools as murder weapons, the characterization of the killer as a tall, heavily built masked figure, and the murder of the victims. The film spawned a franchise that has continued the story of Leatherface and his family through sequels, prequels, a remake, comic books, and video games.
In the early morning of August 18, 1973, a grave robber stole several remains from a cemetery near Newt, Muerto County, Texas. The thief attaches a rotting corpse and other body parts to a monument, creating a gruesome sight that is discovered by a local resident just as the sun rises.
Five young people are traveling through the area in a van: Sally Hardesty, Jerry, Pam, Kirk, and Sally’s disabled brother, Franklin. They stop at the cemetery to check on Sally and Franklin’s grandfather’s grave, which appears untouched. As the group passes a slaughterhouse, Franklin recounts the Hardesty family’s history with animal slaughter. They pick up a hitchhiker who tells them that his own family also resorted to animal slaughter. When the group refuses to pay the hitchhiker for a photo, the hitchhiker attacks Franklin and smears a bloody symbol on the side of the van before being ejected. Running out of gas, the van stops at a gas station whose owner claims there is no fuel available. The group explores a nearby abandoned house owned by the Hardesty family.
Kirk and Pam leave the others behind, planning to make love. They discover another nearby house, where gas generators are operating. Hoping to trade gas, Kirk enters the house. A large man wearing a skin mask attacks Kirk with a hammer, killing him. When Pam enters the house, she finds the living room littered with human and animal bones. The man grabs her, impales her on a meat hook, and starts a gas-powered chainsaw to dismember Kirk’s body as Pam watches. That evening, Jerry goes looking for Pam and Kirk. When he enters the other house, he finds Pam’s body, nearly dead and twitching, in a freezer. The masked man kills Jerry with a hammer.
At night, Sally and Franklin head to the other house. The masked man ambushes them and kills Franklin with a chainsaw. The man chases Sally into the house, where she finds an apparently dead old man and a rotting woman’s corpse. The masked man chases Sally to the gas station and disappears. The station owner comforts Sally for a moment, then beats and overpowers her, and forces her into his pickup truck. The owner goes to the other house, and the hitchhiker appears. The owner chastises him for his actions at the cemetery, identifying the hitchhiker as the grave robber. When they enter the house, the masked man reappears, dressed as a woman. The owner identifies the masked man and the hitchhiker as brothers, and the hitchhiker calls the masked man “Leatherface.” The two brothers bring the old man—”Grandpa”—down the stairs and cut off Sally’s finger so Grandpa can suck his blood. Sally faints.
The next morning, Sally regains consciousness. The men mock her and bicker among themselves, deciding to kill her with a hammer. They try to involve Grandpa in the activity, but Grandpa’s grip is weak, and he drops the hammer several times. Sally breaks free and runs onto a road in front of the house, pursued by the brothers. An oncoming truck accidentally runs over the hitchhiker, killing him. The truck driver attacks Leatherface with a large wrench, injuring him, and flees on foot. Sally, covered in blood, flags down a passing pickup truck and climbs into the bed, narrowly escaping Leatherface. As the truck drives away, Sally laughs aloud. Leatherface waves his chainsaw in frustration as the sun rises.