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:
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.
Old Man: Those girls... those girls don't wanna go messin' round no old house!
Franklin: If I have any more fun today I don't think I can take it!
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!
Franklin: I think we just picked up Dracula.
Trivia:
Tobe Hooper was originally aiming to get a PG rating for the film.
The financing for this film came from the profits of a previous film the production company financed: Deep Throat (1972)
The movie wasn't released in Australia until the early 1980s.
When it was first released, the film was so horrifying that people actually walked out on sneak previews for it
Director Tobe Hooper claims to have got the idea for the film while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store. While thinking of a way to get out through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.
DVD Easter Eggs: (Hidden So You Don't See Anything You Don't Want To See)
Edition: Pioneer Video
Region: 1
Description: Alternate takes of decomposed body
Go to a deleted scene where they have some flashing shots of decomposed skeletons cut from the flashing light dead body scene at beginning of the movie. Play the deleted scene until the end.(Do not press stop or go back to maim menu). After deleted scene is finished it has part 2 of the deleted takes also showing all the explainations highlight play and enter to see the alternate takes of the decomposed graveyard body.
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