TCM set the tone for hillbilly horror to come. L to R: Tobe Hooper, Marilyn Burns, Daniel Pearl As a young filmmaker and lover of horror, there’s something heartening in the story of this miserable, miserable production that the cast and crew went through hell and high water and came out the other side with a monster of a film (of course, under normal circumstances, I don’t condone unsafe production practices). Knowing that TCM was a D.I.Y operation in every aspect of production makes the finished product all the more sweeter to me. By the time the film was ready for release, the budget came out to less than $140,000. By the end of the month, most everybody had sustained an injury or two throughout the course of filming (and a fair amount of contempt for Hooper as well). In another scene, a real hammer was swung at an actor. An actual running chainsaw was brought within inches of actor William Valli’s head for one scene. TCM is a bloody, bloody film, and many of the stunts were incredibly dangerous. Although you certainly can’t blame them for being short with each other. Director Tobe Hooper has been quoted saying that everyone despised him by the time the production wrapped, and some held onto their grudges for some time after. Of course, the heat made both cast and crew irritable. This heat was only compounded by the large amount of lighting needed for the type of film they used. Plus, the iconic house had no air conditioning, thus trapping all the heat inside. This was especially taxing on Gunnar Hansen, the actor behind Leatherface, who had to endure wearing his iconic mask in hundred degree heat. None of the costumes had doubles, and laundering might alter the color, so all of the actors wore the same dirty, sweaty clothes day in and day out. It was a brutal shoot, filmed during the peak of a blistering Texas summer.
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE CINEMATIC UNIVERSE MOVIE
In 1974, a small crew of Texas locals set out to film a horror movie in Round Rock, led by director Tobe Hooper. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of my most beloved movies, due in no small part to the story of its production.
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