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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ()

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Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Sally
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Jerry
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Franklin
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Kirk
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Pam
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Hitchhiker
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Old Man
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Leatherface
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Grandfather
Robert Courtin ...
Window Washer
William Creamer ...
Bearded Man
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Storyteller
Jerry Green ...
Cowboy
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Cattle Truck Driver
Joe Bill Hogan ...
Drunk
Perry Lorenz ...
Pick Up Driver
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Narration (voice)
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Levie Isaacks ...
Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Directed by

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Tobe Hooper

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Kim Henkel ... (screenplay by) and
Tobe Hooper ... (screenplay by)
 
Kim Henkel ... (story by)

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Kim Henkel ... associate producer
Tobe Hooper ... producer
Jay Parsley ... executive producer
Richard Saenz ... associate producer

Music by

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Wayne Bell ... (music score)
Tobe Hooper ... (music score)

Cinematography by

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Daniel Pearl

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J. Larry Carroll ... (as Larry Carroll)
Sallye Richardson

Art Direction by

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Robert A. Burns

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W.E. Barnes ... makeup: grandfather's (as W. E. Barnes)
Dorothy J. Pearl ... makeup artist (as Dorothy Pearl)

Production Management

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Ron Bozman ... production manager (as Ronald Bozman)

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Sallye Richardson ... assistant director

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Wayne Bell ... boom man / post-production sound
James A. Corbett ... re-recording mixer
Jay M. Harding ... dubbing mixer (as Jay Harding)
Paul Harrison ... rerecording
Robert Knudson ... dubbing mixer (as Buzz Knudson)
Ted Nicolaou ... location sound recording
Michael J. White ... sound re-recording mixer: home video version (uncredited)
Patrick Yacono ... re-recording mixer (uncredited)

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Dean W. Miller ... special effects (uncredited)

Stunts

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Mary Church ... stunts
Perry Lorenz ... stunt driver
Carey Loftin ... truck stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Tobe Hooper ... additional photography
Lynn Lockwood ... lighting (as Lynn Lochwood)
J. Michael McClary ... camera assistant
Lou Perryman ... assistant cameraman
Rod Ponton ... grip
Lynn Scherwitz ... key grip (as Linn Scherwitz)

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Mary Church ... script girl

Additional Crew

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George Baetz ... production assistant
Jerry Bellnoski ... production assistant
Jim Crow ... production assistant
Paula Eaton ... production assistant
Tom Foote ... production assistant
Paulette Gochnour ... production assistant
Sally Nicolaou Hamilton ... production assistant (as Sally Nicolau)
Charlie Loving ... production assistant
N.C. Parsley ... production assistant (as N. C. Parsley)
Robert Pustejowski ... production assistant (as Robert Pustejovski)
David Spaw ... production assistant
Ray Spaw ... production assistant
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Plot Summary

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills... Written by Michael Brooke

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Taglines The idyllic summer's day that became a nightmare of fear and blood... [UK Video] See more »
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Also Known As
  • Stalking Leatherface (United States)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (United States)
  • Leatherface (United States)
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary (United States)
  • Headcheese (United States)
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  • 83 min
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Budget $140,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia There were lines of gibberish written in the script for Leatherface. Tobe Hooper would sit with Gunnar Hansen and tell him what the lines meant, and the actor had to figure out a way to say that without actually speaking. In the scene where the Old Man comes home and starts yelling at Leatherface about the door, Hansen remembers a take where he communicated a little too verbally. Hooper told him "there was too much intelligence in the character", and the shot was redone. "My one chance to have a line," says Hansen. See more »
Goofs The blood the hitchhiker smears on the van is gone in the long shot a few seconds later. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Filmgore (1983). See more »
Soundtracks Fool for a Blonde See more »
Crazy Credits Opening credits prologue: The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. AUGUST 18, 1973 See more »
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.
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