It is almost going to be fifty years since a relatively unknown director took the horror slasher genre by a storm! Tobe Hooper shocked and impressed the fans with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it set the tone for slasher flicks to follow in the late 70s and 80s. Moreover, it ignited the arrival of a legendary horror icon, Leatherface, a name that is taken in the same breath as the likes of Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, or Freddy Krueger.
The movie was a showstopper at the box office and its grand success ensured that several sequels and reboots followed over the years. Although none of the successors could emulate the brilliance of the original, it did become a timeless horror franchise that is still intriguing for the fans, as you can see from the craze behind the recent release titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
You may know everything about the cannibalistic psychopaths in the original movie, but there are certain things about the filming process that are relatively unknown and are sure to blow your mind. In this video, we bring you some of these shocking facts that many of the fans of this cult classic are unaware of.
