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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Who will survive and what will be left of them?
( Crime / Horror / Thriller )


The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Poster



US Runtime: 83 min

Premiere Date:
Oct 01, 1974   [USA]
 
Director: Tobe Hooper
 
Writers: Kim Henkel   [story]
Tobe Hooper   [story]
 
Producers: Kim Henkel   [Associate Producer]
Tobe Hooper   [Producer]
Jay Parsley   [Executive Producer]
Lou Peraino   [Producer]
Richard Saenz   [Associate Producer]
 
Music by Wayne Bell
Tobe Hooper
 
Production Design: Robert A. Burns
 
Production Company: Vortex
 


Cast:

Marilyn Burns
Sally Hardesty
Allen Danziger
Jerry
Paul A. Partain
Franklin Hardesty
William Vail
Kirk
Teri McMinn
Pam
Edwin Neal
Hitchhiker
Jim Siedow
Old Man
Gunnar Hansen
Leatherface
 
John Dugan
Grandfather
Robert Courtin
Window Washer
John Henry Faulk
Storyteller
Ed Guinn
Cattle Truck Driver
Joe Bill Hogan
Drunk
Perry Lorenz
Pick Up Driver
John Larroquette
Narrator
 

Crew:

Jim Crow
production assistant
Tobe Hooper
additional photographer
Lynn Lockwood
lighting
 
J. Michael McClary
assistant camera
Lou Perryman
assistant camera
 

Miscellaneous Companies:

Consolidated Film Industries
titles and opticals
 
Todd-AO Studios
sound mixing
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$140,000 (USA)
Color Info:
Color
Laboratory:
Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA - prints
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
16 mm - Kodak 7252 Ektachrome
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • Franklin: If I have any more fun today I don't think I can take it!
     
  • Franklin: I think we just picked up Dracula.
     
  • Franklin: They just shoot a bullet in their head, and then retract it. It's just BOOM-shht-BOOM-shht.
    Sally: Franklin, I like meat, please change the subject!
     
  • Old Man: Those girls... those girls don't wanna go messin' round no old house!
     
  • Old Man: I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it.
     

Trivia:

  • The film was shot in chronological order.
     
  • Marilyn Burns, whose character was chased by Leatherface through the undergrowth actually cut herself on the branches quite badly, so a lot of the blood on her body and clothes is real.
     
  • The film was banned by the British film censors in 1975, but, it did get a limited cinema release, thanks to various city councils. It was banned again in 1977, when the censors' attempts to cut it were unsuccessful, (for the purposes of a wider release), then it was banned again in 1984, due to the growing controversy involving 'video nasties'. In 1999, after the censors finally changed their policy, they took the plunge, and passed it uncut, for the cinema and video, after 25 years, since they first banned it.
     
  • "Granpaw" is actually played by 18-year-old John Dugan
     
  • The actor whose character was hung up on a meat hook was actually held up by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.
     

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