Texas Chainsaw Massacre Really True?

[keithy_19]

Since the remake of the classic movie was made, everyone in my highschool is like, wow, it was so scary that it actually happened! So I was really wondering if it is true or if it is just some hollywood thing there to get people to watch the movie. I did some research and it said that the charecter leather face was loosely based on Ed Gein. A farmer in wisconsin who was a grave robber who killed two girls. They said they found bodies in his farm house, but they were all dug up corpses. It also said that the writer Tobe Hooper got the idea of the chainsaws while he was in a hardware store and was buy a display. So, is that true or did something really happen?

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[jafter]

It is probably is as true as the Amityville Horror. Very loosely based on some true facts and then embelished for the screen.

Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs are all loosely based on the story of Ed Gein.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gein/geinmain.htm (http://)

http://www.weird-wi.com/ghouls/wispsycho.htm (http://)

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[TheMojoPin]

"Psycho" is easily the closest to what Ed Gein did out of all three films.

"TCM" really bears no resemblence to the real life Ed Gein case. Saying that it's a true story is like the Coen Brothers saying that "Fargo" was based on a true story...it's a plot-McGuffin.

Crazy ol' Ed Gein...NOT from Texas... (http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/chainsaw.asp)

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[NewYorkDragons80]

I've heard the story before. Basically, the guy killed a few people and dug up some corpses. The authorities found that he made leather from human skin (Which he claims is from people he dug up, not the people he murdered), so some douche in California took that and made it into a "skin" mask and a chainsaw and slapped a "based on a true story" on it. I love movies which are "based on a true story" enough to realize that they are usually 25% true at best (with notable exceptions.) Movies like JFK, The Hurricane, and to a much larger extent TCM, take embelishing to a whole new level.

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[TheMojoPin]

Movies like JFK, The Hurricane, and to a much larger extent TCM, take embelishing to a whole new level.

Tomato, tomato...I call it flat out LYING. Especially with those first two films...which I actually love as FILMS, but godDAMN are they full of shit historically.

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[JimBeam]

Dragon you make it sound like the original TCM was made by Spielberg.
Tobe Hooper made that film for about 20K and he wasn't from California.


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