It's celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a half-century in which it has been the benchmark for a subgenre of horror — the slasher movie.
IRVING, United States — It was shot quickly on a limited budget with unknown actors wearing the same sweat-soaked outfits for weeks on end.
In 1974, director Tobe Hooper hit upon a formula that would inspire countless copycats: a happy-go-lucky group of young people stumble upon an isolated house occupied by a masked lunatic who proceeds to chop them up with sharp things. "They come in and give me the script. And I go: 'Get the hell out of here with this,'" he said. "I thought, well, nobody will ever see it.Like the recent Netflix word-of-mouth hit "Baby Reindeer," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" claims with its opening crawl to have been based on true events.
"A perfect example would be Gunnar Hansen when he portrayed Leatherface. He had to wear the same costume throughout the entire shoot, and by the end of the shoot, it smelled really bad."
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