The Texas Chainsaw Massacre..true?

[Brenzi51]

I have that this movie has been based upon a true story and the trailer that I saw a feddy vs. Jason confirmed what I heard. I have yet to see the original...however, does anyone know what really happened in Texas during 1978?

[thebtskink]

If the original were made today, it most likely would not get away with itself's billing as "a true story"

Yes there was a family of murderers... no they didn't kill that way, no there was no leatherface....

[TCMfan]

Both the original and the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are not based on a true story. There inspired by a true story. That true story is of Ed Gein. He was considered the first American serial killer in the 1930’s. Gein, only killed one woman but dug up 33 corpses in his home state of Texas. He would then cut of their skin, and he would wear it has a mask. Hope that clears things up for ya.

[ILOVEKATIE]

close enough

[RebelwithaCause]

Well that's how Psycho began too I guess, and other great serial killer thrillers...most of them actually, the beginning ones that is, garnered material from either Ed Gein or Jack the Ripper.

[sphericthor]

The following was taken from a documentary called "The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

On November 17, 1957 police in Plainfield, Wisconsin arrived at the dilapidated farmhouse of Eddie Gein who was a suspect in the robbery of a local hardware store and disappearance of the owner, Bernice Worden. Gein had been the last customer at the hardware store and had been seen loitering around the premises.

Gein's desolate farmhouse was a study in chaos. Inside, junk and rotting garbage covered the floor and counters. It was almost impossible to walk through the rooms. The smell of filth and decomposition was overwhelming. While the local sheriff, Arthur Schley, inspected the kitchen with his flashlight, he felt something brush against his jacket.

When he looked up to see what it was he ran into, he faced a large, dangling carcass hanging upside down from the beams. The carcass had been decapitated, slit open and gutted. An ugly sight to be sure, but a familiar one in that deer-hunting part of the country, especially during deer season.

It took a few moments to sink in, but soon Schley realized that it wasn't a deer at all, it was the headless butchered body of a woman. Bernice Worden, the fifty-year-old mother of his deputy Frank Worden, had been found.

While the shocked deputies searched through the rubble of Eddie Gein's existence, they realized that the horrible discoveries didn't end at Mrs. Worden's body. They had stumbled into a death farm.

The funny-looking bowl was a top of a human skull. The lampshades and wastebasket were made from human skin.

A ghoulish inventory began to take shape: an armchair made of human skin, female genitalia kept preserved in a shoebox, a belt made of nipples, a human head, four noses and a heart.

The more the looked through the house, the more ghastly trophies they found. Finally a suit made entirely of human skin. Their heads spun as they tried to tally the number of woman that may have died at Eddie's hands.

All of this bizarre handicraft made Eddie into a celebrity. Author Robert Bloch was inspired to write a story about Norman Bates, a character based on Eddie, which became the central theme of the Albert Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho.

In 1974, the classic thriller by Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has many Geinian touches, although there is no character that is an exact Eddie Gein model. This movie helped put "Ghastly Gein" back in the spotlight in the mid-1970's.

Years later, Eddie provided inspiration for the character of another serial killer, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. Like Eddie, Buffalo Bill treasured women's skin and wore it like clothing in some insane transvestite ritual.

[PsYkOoOoO]

ohhh boy....scary stuff..

[spiderman_2k]

Indeed

[Doofy Gilmore]

This looks like a rental for me. I can't imagine myself seeing any movie Jessica Biels in.

[sphericthor]

there is no character that is an exact Eddie Gein model

I have since found out that there is a movie based on Ed Gein called "Ed Gein", it recieved a limited release in 2001.

Synopsis

The time was the late ‘50s. The place was Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Not much ever happened in this quiet town of 642 people…

Until the population dropped to 641.

Ed Gein (STEVE RAILSBACK) is a simple man who wants was to lead a simple life on his family’s farm. But the farm is remote, the family is gone, the crops perished long ago. And the ghosts of Ed’s past are coming back to haunt him.

Ed’s only companion in life was his domineering mother Augusta (CARRIE SNODGRESS), and she loved Ed to a fault. She did her best to raise him as an upstanding Christian, with daily Bible readings and the occasional lash of her belt.

But dear Augusta died a few years back…and Ed will never be the same.

Because Ed always did have peculiar interests. Reincarnation. Head-shrinking. Cannibalism. And the wonderful world of female anatomy.

Soon, Ed is doing something about it. The freshly buried bodies of Plainfield’s dead women are starting to disappear.

Ed spends his evenings in the local cemetery, then burns the midnight oil back at the farm. Folks in Plainfield may think Ed is a bit simple-minded, but he’s actually very creative. With the help of Gray’s Anatomy, Ed is making his own housewares: a lampshade here, a soup bowl there. He’s especially proud of the skin suit he wears on special occasions.

Now, though, Augusta’s ghost is getting louder. She doesn’t like the look of that oversexed barmaid Mary Hogan (SALLY CHAMPLIN). That snooty storeowner Colette Marshall (CAROL MANSELL) will also have to go. And Ed is just getting started. "I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore," commands Augusta – and who is Ed to argue? After all, he loves his work.

This is the story that inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs – but the truth is even more terrifying.

You’ve never met anyone like Ed. You’ve never seen a film like Ed Gein.

[Fanible]

Anyways, it's never been said to be based on a true story. Hence the word inspired by a true story. There were murders, but the movie just spurred creation in some guy's mind, and he over elaborated with his own horror movie, only kinda basing it around some murders that occured in Texas, but with his own tale and twists. Then just added the skin wearing leather face character inspired from Ed Gein's stories. So no, it isn't on any true story, it was only inspired by certain events, not based.

It's two different words. When there have been sci-fi's that have been inspired from Philip K Dick's books, nobody goes into them thinking they're going to see a movie adaption of one of his stories. Just something that struck a reader's imagination to create their own sci-fi.

Dalhmer was based on a true story. I am Sam was based on a true story. This was just inspired by one.

[Brenzi51]

I heard from the other thread that jessica was pretty good in the movie..........this is going to be a freaKy movie

[Fanible]

Well it's the best trailer ive seen this year, and it knocked my socks off once I got to see it in the theatre. Seein peoples reactions to it were cool too. They should have a reward for best trailer. Because even if the movie sucks, that trailer was very well made to get people in the seats. Music, editing, the whole setup.

[clrb15]

I agree TTCM movie trailer is put together very well.....

But I have a question............Who is the artist and what is the title of the song in the beginning of the trailer???

[sphericthor]

That's the first thing I asked when I joined the CS! Forum

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by clrb15

But I have a question............Who is the artist and what is the title of the song in the beginning of the trailer???

Song To The Siren by Moneypenny

The second song that is played towards the end is Signal to Noise by Peter Gabriel

[ILOVEKATIE]

That would be "Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil

I love this trailer, It so cool watching it on the big screen. The part where the screen goes black and you hear a girl running and screaming "somebody help me!", in the movie theater that I go to they have surround sound and you hear the girl running around the room, so freaky, everyone was just looking around, following the footsteps. lol

[ambrosia]

The song was made my Mortal Coil but the version played in the trailer was done by Moneypenny. Though I could be wrong... this is second hand info and haven't really researched much into it myself.

I'm still trying to find the remix of the second song that is used in the trailer. Any help would be appreciated.

[ILOVEKATIE]

oh ok:)

[PsYkOoOoO]

Originally posted by clrb15
I agree TTCM movie trailer is put together very well.....

But I have a question............Who is the artist and what is the title of the song in the beginning of the trailer???

indeed..you dont get to see any bodies or the killer...wait...we did see the killer...but for less than a second...cool

[clrb15]

I love the song in the beginning....it makes the movie seem like it's going to be WAY different from other scary movies that have been out there before.......I can't wait

Also thanks for the info on the song...... :)

[PsYkOoOoO]

yeah...cool music...it suits the trailer well...it couldve easily fooled someone that the trailer belongs to a love story...

[Brenzi51]

the music in a movie is almost always what determines if it is scary or not...always