The low budget just added to the overall gritty, truly terrifying feel of this movie. The one scene that always freaked me out was when looking for gas around the cannibal farm we see a bunch of cars covered in tarps with out of state tags-all victims showing this has been going on for awhile. You can feel the Texas heat thick with tension as the first victim wanders in the front door and it's all shattered when Leatherface appears behind the sliding metal door.
Another fun fact, I've read that even though Gunnar Hansen had to wear lifts in his boots he was STILL able to run faster than the girl he was chasing.
Fun fact: Gunner Hanson aka Leather face was a librarian on Mount Desert Island Maine! I live in Maine and a few of my friends on MDI got to meet him at the library before he passed away.
Lol I lived on Lyman Lane, across from the Pemetic Elementary. I've talked to him several times while living there. I lived on MDI for 6 years(2 in Northeast Harbor and the rest in Southwest Harbor).
@@whooligan7159 that's awesome! My ex grew up on MDI and I go there for wastewater management work throughout the year. It's so funny to imagine him working at a public school library 😂😵
What's funny, is when I moved there, I'd see him go for walks, and thought he looked so familiar. I just could place his face. Internet was kind of scarce at the time(2001), so I couldn't look him up. I eventually found out that it was him. We talked several times. He was a very nice guy.
Bonus fact: The movie's creepy music was made using old, somewhat broken, out of tune instruments found in a basement. If I remember right, it was the director and a couple other guys that actually played/recorded it. I would call it the 2nd creepiest horror theme I've ever heard (top place goes to "The Amityville Horror"); funny to learn it wasn't done by professional composers.
Extra Secret Probation bonus possible fun fact: *The Amityville Horror* soundtrack was a reworked version of Lalo Schifrin’s unused (and thrown out onto the street by Billy Friedkin) soundtrack for *The Exorcist*
@@sitrepproductionsatlanta8538 Honestly doesnt bud - look at the others - still one of the creepiest 'horrors' ive seen and it relies on your imagination shitting you up rather than blood and gore ...
The ONLY movies that used gore in a truly creative way were the first 2 Hellraiser films, truly disturbing, yet, weirdly beautiful. All the rest just show stuff that pales in comparison to what emergency workers constantly face. I don't mind gore, in fact, in, say, Frankenstein movies, it's actually essential, but, when puerile directors use it to make up for lack of true creepiness, it's just unpleasant.
All the oldies but goodies prove that..I think the culture just decided it was bored with the 'same old-same old' , and decided to add some color. Which works, but should be done right.
I'm from Texas, this movie has that ability to make you afraid of even the day time. The first time I saw it was at the reception area at my dad's job while I was waiting for him and it was summer so it felt like the atmosphere of the film was there. One day when I was walking home from work I took a shortcut on the trinity and there happened to be some people living there with junk strewn all over, then I heard gunshots and feared for the worst. The most effective scary movie is the one that feels the most real
Born and raised Texan here. I love this movie! Although, I don't know what is more disturbing, being chased by a man wearing a human skin masked, or knowing that this was filmed in Texas, during heat of August. Summer in Texas is MISERABLE, not to mention, pour Marilyn Burns had to run through dried mesquite trees and some pretty nasty brush. Most of those little scratches and scrapes were real.
I work outside and live in Texas and August is the most brutal month of the year. That cast went through hell plus didn't really get paid with that being said these conditions is part of what made the movie so powerful and scary. I think it's because of the fact that most of there misery was actually real life misery because it has never looked like a movie where the cast had fun making it.
I'm not so sure, the 50 minutes of constant shrieking by the girl makes the movie almost unwatchable. Like, she's barely being held while the old man drops a hammer in her but she just sits there and shrieks. Much prefer the Jessica Beil updated version.
You know, besides Marilyn Burns getting her finger cut for real, she also gets knocked unconscious with a stick for real. She actually brought that one on herself. Jim Siedow was concerned about hitting her too hard, so he held back, and none of the takes of that head-knocking looked convincing. So Marilyn Burns impatiently told him not to hold back, but hit her over the head for real. Which Siedow did - resulting in her genuinely passing out. Siedow was understandably devastated, but Marilyn Burns turned out to be an amazing sport and held no grudge about it.
@@messianic_scam the room was ridiculously hot, it was starting to smell thanks the raw meat spoiling and they really wanted to get the movie over with
I once spoke to Marilyn Burns for a long time at a convention many years ago, and she also told me the rag they put in her mouth was the same rag they used to clean the chicken cages.
Although I like 2 and Toby Hooper intended for this to be like what part 2 would later become but it didn't happen that way so when he did 2 he made sure he made it as funny as possible.
@@antifugazi I say that all the time! You can't beat the raw viscera of the old grainy type of celluloid reel. Despite these movies being way before my time I already got a disdain for new movies and most new media in general because they just feel too clean, sterile, and overwrought with stock music
Speaking of Spielberg, he has cited Chainsaw as one of his biggest influences, next to Lawrence of Arabia. Guess that's why Hooper got the directing job on Poltergeist.
Which is crazy because Hooper didn't actually have much to say during the Production of "Poltergeist" as Spielberg really handled it for the most part, even though he went back to back with the production of "E.T.".
Ive met a few of the Poltergeist cast members who confirmed what the LA Times wrote about the production when they visited the set. Spielberg directed everything in front of the house. Hooper did the backyard and interiors. So, the opening credits are 100% Spielberg and the burying of "Tweety" is Hooper. They were both filmed on the same day.
@@davidthieroff9452 not a chainsaw fan, as much as a friend at college took me through shot by shot showing its technical proficiency etc [ which i rather enjoyed as director commentary had only just become a thing on dvd ] but i love poltergeist. always felt hooper got $%^&* on that picture. spielberg being the reason ...
The 1979 film The Tourist Trap is probably one of the most underrated scariest movies ever. You should do a video on it. Lot of people never heard of it.
That's a very cool horror flick. It's hard to believe it's PG, even for that era. It has some pretty disturbing stuff. The suffocation scene was brutal! A must-see for horror fans.
This film is just incredible. No BS CGI. Just real effects. The dedication of the crew and actors was incredible. Truly groundbreaking. As horror film lovers we owe this film for inspiring several directors to continue this legacy of brutal horror. A true masterpiece.
I remember when i was 13 years old renting a boothleg version for vhs and my dad saw the cover and said: “are you crazy? I went to the cinema to watch that movie when i was young and people ran out in fear, i did too. Are you sure you wanna watch that?” that only made me want to watch it more.
I grew up terrified of just about everything and would get nightmares from the most tame stuff, so I never thought I'd watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As I got older, I found I really liked comedy/horror though and when I started collecting laserdiscs last year, a few people recommended Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. I was dubious, but I managed to get a copy and I absolutely loved it, even without having seen the original. I thought it was so great that I had to check out the original and I loved that too, although I still prefer Part 2, mostly because of Chop Top. There needs to be more movies with him in them.
Other than A Clockwork Orange, there's probably no other movie that left me with a feeling of dizziness and entrapment like TCM did. The way TCM was filmed also made it feel more real. Once they reach the house it's like we're no longer seeing a movie but a documentary of a sick, twisted family.
Try The Poughkeepsie Tapes. It wasn't the best acting but truly terrifying. Makes one feel helpless that you can't jump in the screen and stop the villan to save the poor victims.
I agree. 2 of my fave movies. They both shocked the Hell out of me. Alex’s creepy clown mask when he rapes that poor lady. The whole freaky dysfunctional family in Texas CSM left me speechless. Surely 2 of the most powerful movies ever produced!
I wouldn't say perfect acting by anyone the main actress screamed her damn head off Paul partain was kind of annoying as Franklin and the others were body count the best actors in it were the family Jim siedow gunnar hansen Edwin Neal because he played crazy so believably and the guy who was the grandpa did well for what was asked being in the makeup.
Over here in Germany, the censors were absolutely merciless towards TCM. The film was censored and banned till somewhere around 2011 or so, until a smaller independent film label called Turbine Media, fought for many many years a very expensive legal battle against the censorship institutions and eventually WON. That was a huge win for everyone and in 2012 we finally got the first official and uncensored release of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I bought the Special Edition on release day and still celebrate it as a huge victory for Art. The first time i ever watched this film was back in october of 2001 when my best buddy got a german DVD release of it by a small bootleg label called Laser Paradise which were one of the few labels in Germany who kept releasing movies on Laserdisc and were doing DVD releases before even Major Studios jumped onto that format. This release was really really terrible with a shitty letterboxed Videomaster that looked like a 4th generation NTSC to PAL conversion. All blurry and with ghosting but it kinda added to the "forbidden fruit" character of the film. This release was actually banned as well shortly after, as with every attempt by any label to release the film uncut over here. It totally blew me away and i became a fan instantly and got my own DVD copy of it. Which was at that time one of my most expensive DVDs ever and cost me 60DM. And to make matters worse it was even a faulty pressing and a already opened returned copy with some playback flaws. Oh the nostalgia :)
This movie will always be important to me because when I was a kid (10) and moved to Texas in 2003 (when the remake came out) I saw this and was scared as hell cause they said it was based on a true story and Letherface was never caught.
(Let me preface this with the fact there was no internet back then, and urban legends travelled by word of mouth with no way to verify, and we were kids lol) While growing up in Houston in the 70's and 80's there was an urban legend that it came from a true story and that it happened close to Magnolia, Texas (about an hour nw of Houston). In the mid-80's we got our driver licenses and on the way to the Tex Ren Fair we got pulled over by one of their patrols for going 5 over the speed limit. Anyway, my friend asked the cop whereabouts the incident happened. Well, we didn't know how far that urban legend had travelled (we were 16), so when the question left my friend's mouth that cop turned beet red like someone had flipped a light switch. Went off on a tirade about sick horror movie freaks looking for a murder house and a crazed killer. Yeah, apparently over the years they had been inundated with people trespassing and doing other petty crimes while trying to find Leatherface's true home. He chased us off without giving us a ticket, but we didn't make it to the Fair either since we'd have to drive back through Magnolia to get back home in Houston. Damn if that wasn't the weirdest interaction I've ever had with an officer though lol. Thanks for the inside look Minty! :D
I heard something similar, except that it was around Austin and drugs were involved, one of the family members got jealous/paranoid and killed one of the friends.... Then killed off the rest
One of the greatest movies ever made. When you get past the initial experience of viewing it, there is so much symbolism. Gotta call you out Minty...it GUNNAR-not Gummer.
Absolutely adore this movie. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. Never stop making them. I wanna see you at 60 doing a “10 things you didn’t know about Ghosbusters 15 The Next Generation” or something idk. Love from The U.K
@@nsasupporter7557 didn’t the truck driver throw a wrench or something at Leatherface which made him fall? Been a long time since I’ve watched the movie.
Let's not forget that, John Larroquette was the narrator of this film. Moreover known for his role as Dan Feilding in "Night Court"(1984-1990), as well as his roles in "Mad House"(1990), "Blind Date"(1987), "Second Sight"(1989), "Stripes" (1981), Richie Rich"(1994), and "Summer Rental"(1985). He also returned to narrate other "Texas Chainsaw" movies such as: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" [remake] (2003), as well as, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The New Beginning" (2006) [prequel].
I still remember buying it on DVD and they accidentally gave me the remake. Because the shop kept only empty cases out. My parents of course saw the original and said that this looks very modern and can't recall these actors. One look at the DVD itself, and the year didn't add up with the packaging. So of course I returned to the shop and they immediately gave me the original. So I have seen both movies for a low price.
If anyone's interested, I can't recommend enough the Joe Bob Briggs commentary for this movie on Shudder. It's worth the price of a month subscription just for this movie. He really goes into why he loves it so much and why he thinks it's the greatest movie ever made and by the time he's done, you tend to agree with him.
I was 9 years old when this film came out here in Canada. I can remember critics hating this film with many calling it was glorifying gratuitous violence. Some even believed that the film was in fact based on a true story. I think I was in my 30s when I first saw it, on TV believe it or not. I was amazed! I thought some of it, such as the shots of the living room with all the animal parts was just macabre, beautiful. Much of the violence is implied and is tame when compared to much of what passes for shock horror today. Which goes to show that less is often more cause nothing is as scary as what the human mind can cook up.
Yeah the violence happens off-camera. And yet this film was banned like crazy for WAYYY too long here in Germany. And the small label Turbine Films fought legal battles for YEAAAARS to get this film unbanned in Germany, while it was already part of the Museum of Modern Art for many years. Imagine that.
Actually it's "The Funhouse". "The Fun House" is an alternate title for "The Last House on Dead End Street". It's widely believed that the BBFC got them mixed up when they created the Video Nasties list, as The Funhouse is rather tame (but still a good movie), and The Fun House is much more disturbing and graphic.
Minty, I know more than ten things you didn't know about TTCM. I worked on it, AND worked with multiple people who starred in it. Did you know that many lead characters worked for MHMR Mental Health services here in Austin, Texas? Allen Danziger, who drove the van, was director of multiple depts. Gunnar Hansen may have been Leatheface, but in real life, he was quite a teddy bear. Most of the guys and gals didn't regret doing the movie, but they all trusted Hooper to do them right and he didn't. Me? I splattered red paint all over the inside of the farm house kitchen... The animal blood came later during filming, and I'm so glad I wasn't there for that!
@@silascraven at the time, it was just some graduate film student making a horror film in central Texas, nothing more, a bunch of friends getting to together with a 16mm camera and film. I feel a bit privileged to have been a small part of it.
@@michaelcroos4713 I still can't believe I am meeting with someone who helped developed this classic. What did you do to help with the project: set designer, camera man, stunt coordinator?
@@silascraven I didn't know what it was about, just had to paint bits of the inside of the farmhouse, located near Leander, Texas, north of Austin. Then, coincidentally, volunteered for a daycare program run by Allan Danziger, the driver of the van in the movie. Consequently, I met many of the people in the movie, a few working in the mental health field.
Well, I'm bald and old, so I remember this movie from back in the day. I didn't see it in the theatre, because I was too young. But when we got our first VCR, I went to the video store as a 13 year old and rented the movie (or hired the movie if I was in Ozzyland) And oh my god, this movie left a mark on my psyche. Because, when it said it was based on a true story, I believe it and back then, there was no internet to look up information. In fact, it was shot so realistically, it had a documentary type feel. I didn't even find out for years that it wasn't a true story. So, for me, this wasn't just a slasher film, it was a "real" horror. But since the character was loosely based on Ed Gein, the horror of story has a ring of truth and a terrible reality.
Yeah, the greatest part about the movie is that it has a real almost documentary type feel. It's just like watching someone's home movie about what happened to them on their vacation, the acting, editing and camera work really driving that point home.
Well done minty. This movie imo is a masterpiece in any genre of movies. I'm from Texas about two hours from where the movie was filmed. I will make sure a copy of this movie is passed down to all my kids and grandchildren. It will never be forgotten in my family.
Nice Minty! I just finished the audio book for chainsaw confidential and your facts as always were spot on. Have you ever watched trick or treat with Marc Price from family ties? You may have already done a 10 things on that movie but I did not find it. One of my favorite from the 80s, encompassing the great satanic panic, heavy metal music, and bullies getting paid back. All of this plus Ozzy, Gene Simmons and a great soundtrack by Fastway.
Minty can't read well and doesn't know what he's talking about, that's the only explanation. He does this all the time in so many videos. It's very frustrating... If you're going to read from a script with no knowledge of the subject, at least read what's written.
Oh, the irony! Just last week, I was at the gas station featured in the movie. It plays up its horror movie status with a bunch of posters, shirts, masks, etc. But it was a fun time. Decent BBQ as well, although the spicy sauce is not for the faint of heart.
@@normanmccultureboy6492 What the fuck does that have to do with ANYTHING? Australians don't pronounce N's as M's. Where are you people getting this idiocy from?
This movie would have been beyond shocking for its time. TCM makes Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street look like Child's Play and all those movies came out years later. You're basically going from Dracula and Frankenstein to the greatest slasher ever made. Anyone who says The Exorcist was the scariest movie didn't watch this movie, or at least they didn't watch it for a very long time.
Let's not dog the other classics, as I like those more than this I do like this film but those are my jam I guess because I grew up more watching those. I did see Chainsaw 1,2,3 growing up but didn't see them a whole lot back then until last several years the original grew on me I like 2 more but the original I do like more than I used to.
@@jdogjohnson9038 I’m an 80’s kid and I didn’t see TCM until 2003 on TV with commercials and I was blown away. I loved all the F13 up until 8. But when you compare the acting and the human bone sets of furniture and human skin for a mask and the twist of it being a family of crazy murderers, no slasher can compare. The acting is Oscar worthy from Sally and the Hitchhiker. TCM is one of the top five most picked best horror movies of all time.
HI Mark! Great writeup, as always! 54 here, & I have to add that the $30M gross is $100+M today. I did look this up a few years ago. Bryanson films was owned by Lou Perry (as he was called), who owned/distributed the '72 mega porn hit Deep Throat, which was said to have grossed $600M (more than Star Wars in '77). There is much debate about this, but it is likely the highest grossing adult film ever. (Its star, Linda Lovelace, later claimed she never saw a dime due to an abusive relationship, but her popularity likely saved her life so she could escape.) TCM is in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, likely b/c it IS a classic & is horrifying & scary in a darkened theater. Just got back from buying a pumpkin from the local farm, where they had "haunted hayrides" for the kids, while Jason w/a machete & Leatherface w/a chainsaw terrorized them (& they loved it!). Jigsaw was in there someplace. But TCM isn't for kids. Still, thanks for a great writeup! :-)
For those who are interested, the podcast (and YT channel) "Infamous America" did a two-fer last summer (2020) of both The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Ed Gein. Was pretty good and worth checking out as a worthy companion to this "10 Things You Didn't Know".
When I was in the Army, I was stationed at Ft Hood TX and the guys had me convinced it was a true story and happened on the road between Kileen and Austin lol.
Damn that's funny i was watching the evil dead 2 one with my girlfriend last and said I'm surprised you didn't do a Texas chainsaw massacre one and boom here it is
Yeah that movie had a huge impact on my girlfriend. Wouldn't shower alone for months, which was kinda alright for me because I had to be there. . . And yes watching and maybe a hard on but either way it was support and teased.
EPIC. EPIC MOVIE!. I wish o had been alive to see this in the theaters when it was first released. Thank you for this video Minty. I've had been looking forward to this one for a long time. Minty comes in in the clutch..
I always thought this was because Ed Gein did it. Had no idea it was because his buddy was cutting off dead people faces and making masks out of them. That was a wtf moment for sure
Thank you for another great video. Please consider doing 1988's The Serpent And The Rainbow or 1981's Ghost Story PLEASE 🙏. I haven't seen either in years but when they came out I really enjoyed both of them.
@@tonyacosta4574 hello again 👋 I’m not doing too good. I’m homeless right now but luckily I’ve been able to get some help from churches that have paid for me to stay in a hotel. How have you been?
@@tonyacosta4574 yeah I wish I lived closer to you too. I will figure something out somehow. I’m on SSDI, but I talked to them and they said that I can earn $940 each month and still get the same check amount each month. Unfortunately right now I don’t know where I’m going to end up living, so there’s no sense in me getting a part time job right now. I’m so glad to hear that you’re doing good. Enjoy the rest of your day my friend.
My oldest brother is around 6’5. He met Gunnar Hansen at a ‘met & greet’ once and he taller my brother. The dude was HUGE. I know his height was listed at 6’4 but he was definitely taller.
I wish you would do a video about Wes craven's New nightmare. I was always curious as to how they did the bed tunnel scene into Freddy's layer, at the end.
The BBFC (UK Censor) refused to give this movie a rating in the UK between 1975 and 1999. When James Ferman (Chairman of the BBFC 75-99) left the BBFC they nearly gave it a '15 and over' rating. They ended up giving it an '18 and over' rating instead. It was shown in some cinemas between 75-99 because local councils can give their own ratings for cinemas (it played mainly in London/Glasgow/Edinburgh/Newcastle). You're right about the lack of empathy shown by the Leatherface family. They worked in slaughter houses and showed the humans in the movie the same lack of empathy that some people show towards animals.
Trip Trap Trip over the bridge. Standout scary kids story. Dont know how a Hansel and Gretel link was made. There are some uncharacteristic f ups in this one Mr M. Shame as this one is a biggy and would attract a lot of potential newbies, maybe put off by clearly sloppy research. Still love ya tho Minty but need to step it up son. All love tho brother x
I'm just gonna say it. I didn't hate the remake or the prequel. Texas Chainsaw 3D was HORRENDOUS though. How on earth did those timeline inconsistencies even happen?
Texas chainsaw 3d started off so promising with the recap of the original but the moment they show family with significantly more members than the original and the film taking place only 20ish years later yet is somehow modern day just killed all promise that film had.
@@bigkmoviesandgames I just don't understand how such a huge error can make it into a finished product. Did nobody notice? It's genuinely mind boggling.
@@Wolfiegreenwood I know it's so crazy! What's even more confusing is the production crew meticulously recreated the original house down to the tiniest detail, even going as far as to photograph the original house (which had been moved and is now a restaurant) and got exact measurements. But despite this they just said F it when it came to continuity with the plot and timeline after the fisrt 2 minutes.
The reason is in the title... "3D". Whenever you get a film with the 3D tag right in the title, you can bet your life its been put together entirely by boardroom suits strangling the life out of the creative team for the sake of a gimmick
Just watched this...I was lucky enough to be one of the first in my town to see it when it came out. I was 13, and it was banned all over WI where I'm at. I remember laying in bed one night with my earbuds listening to the radio, and the DJs were talking about it months ahead of its showing. It was going to be one time only, at midnight. It's a University town, so I'm sure that's why it was allowed one time lol. I begged my mom to take me. She was into "scary" books, and I was relentless for three months. Finally, she gave in, and none of my friend's parents would let them go, so yea, I was feeling pretty special lol. A few days prior, after the 10pm news, there was a commercial for it...and I caught it. I remember seeing the girl with the swimsuit and shorts (as he's carrying her to the meat hook) and all I could think of was how my hair was just like hers and I wore that same kind of clothes, I couldn't wait to see it!! I thought of that ad for days...and as the night of the movie neared, I was getting to the point that I was having second thoughts. At that time, hell, life was a "Leave it to Beaver" mentality. I remember telling mom that because it was so late, we didn't have to go. She looked at me and said, "you begged me for three months, we're going". We got there, and we were like the fifth in line, the line soon grew to over a block long. I remember they were putting up the movie poster for Rocky Horror Picture Show, and thinking it looks horrible (lol). I will never forget seeing that movie. Someone actually threw up during it and many left early. "Jim", reminded me of someone I knew so when he was hit first, it really got to me...and the meat hook, and freezer...wow, it was a hell of a show. lol. The next day, mom and I were washing clothes, and dad and my brother were cleaning the garage. I was hanging sheets on the clothesline when Dad came up on the other side of the sheet and started a chainsaw. Omg...talk about fright!!! Mom came running out of the house as dad and my brother were laughing like crazy...and she yelled "Dennis!!! That is NOT funny!!! You didn't see that movie...". lol. I can't remember what else she yelled...I was literally frozen with tears running out of my eyes. When VHS tapes came out it was the first movie I bought. Its still my #1 fav. scary movie.
TAGLINES: "Who will survive and what will be left of them?" "Can you survive... It happened." "What happened is true. Now the motion picture that's just as real." "Once you stop screaming, then you'll start talking about it." "America's Most Bizarre and Brutal Crimes!"
The low budget just added to the overall gritty, truly terrifying feel of this movie. The one scene that always freaked me out was when looking for gas around the cannibal farm we see a bunch of cars covered in tarps with out of state tags-all victims showing this has been going on for awhile. You can feel the Texas heat thick with tension as the first victim wanders in the front door and it's all shattered when Leatherface appears behind the sliding metal door.
Another fun fact, I've read that even though Gunnar Hansen had to wear lifts in his boots he was STILL able to run faster than the girl he was chasing.
His name was Tommy Hewitt
lifts ? the guy was 6'4
Tommy is the remake name 😐
Fun fact: Gunner Hanson aka Leather face was a librarian on Mount Desert Island Maine! I live in Maine and a few of my friends on MDI got to meet him at the library before he passed away.
I can't help but picture Leatherface saying shhhhh...
Lol I lived on Lyman Lane, across from the Pemetic Elementary. I've talked to him several times while living there. I lived on MDI for 6 years(2 in Northeast Harbor and the rest in Southwest Harbor).
@@whooligan7159 that's awesome! My ex grew up on MDI and I go there for wastewater management work throughout the year. It's so funny to imagine him working at a public school library 😂😵
"Remember to return your books on time, otherwise...."
What's funny, is when I moved there, I'd see him go for walks, and thought he looked so familiar. I just could place his face. Internet was kind of scarce at the time(2001), so I couldn't look him up. I eventually found out that it was him. We talked several times. He was a very nice guy.
Bonus fact: The movie's creepy music was made using old, somewhat broken, out of tune instruments found in a basement. If I remember right, it was the director and a couple other guys that actually played/recorded it. I would call it the 2nd creepiest horror theme I've ever heard (top place goes to "The Amityville Horror"); funny to learn it wasn't done by professional composers.
Extra Secret Probation bonus possible fun fact: *The Amityville Horror* soundtrack was a reworked version of Lalo Schifrin’s unused (and thrown out onto the street by Billy Friedkin) soundtrack for *The Exorcist*
@@TheRealNormanBates Oh yeah, I think I remember that being in Minty's Amityville horror video
@@TheRealNormanBates extra super bad az cool fun fact: my chemical Romance did a song called sunsets over Monroeville
@@michaell6807 I’ll have to check that out!
I heard that they also used bones and slaughterhouse tools!!
Proves you don't need gore for a great horror movie.
But it helps… LOL
@@sitrepproductionsatlanta8538 Honestly doesnt bud - look at the others - still one of the creepiest 'horrors' ive seen and it relies on your imagination shitting you up rather than blood and gore ...
@@mickeypye2593 was being sarcastic.
The ONLY movies that used gore in a truly creative way were the first 2 Hellraiser films, truly disturbing, yet, weirdly beautiful. All the rest just show stuff that pales in comparison to what emergency workers constantly face. I don't mind gore, in fact, in, say, Frankenstein movies, it's actually essential, but, when puerile directors use it to make up for lack of true creepiness, it's just unpleasant.
All the oldies but goodies prove that..I think the culture just decided it was bored with the 'same old-same old' , and decided to add some color. Which works, but should be done right.
I'm from Texas, this movie has that ability to make you afraid of even the day time. The first time I saw it was at the reception area at my dad's job while I was waiting for him and it was summer so it felt like the atmosphere of the film was there. One day when I was walking home from work I took a shortcut on the trinity and there happened to be some people living there with junk strewn all over, then I heard gunshots and feared for the worst. The most effective scary movie is the one that feels the most real
Born and raised Texan here. I love this movie! Although, I don't know what is more disturbing, being chased by a man wearing a human skin masked, or knowing that this was filmed in Texas, during heat of August. Summer in Texas is MISERABLE, not to mention, pour Marilyn Burns had to run through dried mesquite trees and some pretty nasty brush. Most of those little scratches and scrapes were real.
I work outside and live in Texas and August is the most brutal month of the year. That cast went through hell plus didn't really get paid with that being said these conditions is part of what made the movie so powerful and scary. I think it's because of the fact that most of there misery was actually real life misery because it has never looked like a movie where the cast had fun making it.
@@Cornerback80 These days, you'd be hearing on social media all the claims of abuse by the cast and how the director was so mean to them.
I went to “old time strong man university” in august .. Austin Texas 2023.. it was 103 when I got off the plane at 9pm
@@clydenolet736 last year was BRUTAL so I believe it!
Fun trivia: Black Christmas and Texas Chainsaw Massacre both were released in October 11 of 1974!
Both great movies and love the fact black Christmas is a Canadian film
The original is still the best R.I.P Marilyn Burns and Gunnar Hansen.
And Paul A. Partain (Franklin)
@@1959blantz him to.
I'm not so sure, the 50 minutes of constant shrieking by the girl makes the movie almost unwatchable. Like, she's barely being held while the old man drops a hammer in her but she just sits there and shrieks. Much prefer the Jessica Beil updated version.
And Tobe Hooper.
@@michaelgamble2848 I like that version also still like the original but 2003 was hardcore crazy.
You know, besides Marilyn Burns getting her finger cut for real, she also gets knocked unconscious with a stick for real. She actually brought that one on herself. Jim Siedow was concerned about hitting her too hard, so he held back, and none of the takes of that head-knocking looked convincing. So Marilyn Burns impatiently told him not to hold back, but hit her over the head for real. Which Siedow did - resulting in her genuinely passing out. Siedow was understandably devastated, but Marilyn Burns turned out to be an amazing sport and held no grudge about it.
Bless this lady.
@@messianic_scam the room was ridiculously hot, it was starting to smell thanks the raw meat spoiling and they really wanted to get the movie over with
I once spoke to Marilyn Burns for a long time at a convention many years ago, and she also told me the rag they put in her mouth was the same rag they used to clean the chicken cages.
I love the gritty and raw feel this film has. Sadly the same can't be said for any other film in the franchise.
It's the same with most horror films these days, they just look too clean.
@@antifugazi
Yeah they really lack that gritty look many 70s and 80s horror films have.
Although I like 2 and Toby Hooper intended for this to be like what part 2 would later become but it didn't happen that way so when he did 2 he made sure he made it as funny as possible.
@@antifugazi I say that all the time! You can't beat the raw viscera of the old grainy type of celluloid reel. Despite these movies being way before my time I already got a disdain for new movies and most new media in general because they just feel too clean, sterile, and overwrought with stock music
This and the first Evil Dead really don't benefit from HD. They're best when dirty and grimy.
Evil Dead 2 and now The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We’re only halfway through October. Keep up the good work, Minty.
"The Saw is family!"
Nothing like waking up to see a new Minty video is out
Right on bro hymn
Nice profile pic
I’m in Australia and just popped into my feed, about to turn in for the night
Right. That’s the point it’s gotten to lol
True I just wished minty would respond back to his subscribers 😔
The flipflops flying off at the :20 mark forever made me !LOL! .. right out of a damn cartoon! 🤣🤣🤣
Speaking of Spielberg, he has cited Chainsaw as one of his biggest influences, next to Lawrence of Arabia. Guess that's why Hooper got the directing job on Poltergeist.
Which is crazy because Hooper didn't actually have much to say during the Production of "Poltergeist" as Spielberg really handled it for the most part, even though he went back to back with the production of "E.T.".
Ive met a few of the Poltergeist cast members who confirmed what the LA Times wrote about the production when they visited the set. Spielberg directed everything in front of the house. Hooper did the backyard and interiors. So, the opening credits are 100% Spielberg and the burying of "Tweety" is Hooper. They were both filmed on the same day.
@@davidthieroff9452 not a chainsaw fan, as much as a friend at college took me through shot by shot showing its technical proficiency etc [ which i rather enjoyed as director commentary had only just become a thing on dvd ] but i love poltergeist. always felt hooper got $%^&* on that picture. spielberg being the reason ...
The 1979 film The Tourist Trap is probably one of the most underrated scariest movies ever. You should do a video on it. Lot of people never heard of it.
It's been on my Shudder list forever, and my local art house will be screening it on Halloween. This comment must be a sign...it's time haha.
Yes!!!
You're right, I've never heard of it
That's a very cool horror flick. It's hard to believe it's PG, even for that era. It has some pretty disturbing stuff. The suffocation scene was brutal! A must-see for horror fans.
@@henrydeltoid448 That seen was very disturbing! I watched the RiffTrax version of this film and did not lesson the scary-ness lol.
0:24 the best scene in the movie!
Gummer Hanson as Leverface. Great movie none the less.
"Gunner" dude not "Gummer". Great video. Love your stuff.
They went through hell to make this masterpiece.
Gunner's memorable dance in the end was really him showing frustrations to the film crews. All improvised
This film is just incredible. No BS CGI. Just real effects. The dedication of the crew and actors was incredible. Truly groundbreaking. As horror film lovers we owe this film for inspiring several directors to continue this legacy of brutal horror. A true masterpiece.
Bonus fact: The man that played grandpa and myself worked together a few years back. Miss the guy.
"leather face, after the main protagonist"
This gives the movie another spin eh haha
I remember when i was 13 years old renting a boothleg version for vhs and my dad saw the cover and said: “are you crazy? I went to the cinema to watch that movie when i was young and people ran out in fear, i did too. Are you sure you wanna watch that?” that only made me want to watch it more.
I grew up terrified of just about everything and would get nightmares from the most tame stuff, so I never thought I'd watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As I got older, I found I really liked comedy/horror though and when I started collecting laserdiscs last year, a few people recommended Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. I was dubious, but I managed to get a copy and I absolutely loved it, even without having seen the original. I thought it was so great that I had to check out the original and I loved that too, although I still prefer Part 2, mostly because of Chop Top. There needs to be more movies with him in them.
2 is god awful.
@@paulvoorhies8821 2 was great, one of the greatest comedy/horror films.
@@paulvoorhies8821 so was the next generation. That one was retarded
Fun Fact: Dennis Hopper was paid in high quality Peruvian flake cocaine for his portrayal as Texas Ranger (ret.) Lefty Enright.
Other than A Clockwork Orange, there's probably no other movie that left me with a feeling of dizziness and entrapment like TCM did. The way TCM was filmed also made it feel more real. Once they reach the house it's like we're no longer seeing a movie but a documentary of a sick, twisted family.
I felt dizzy too!! Especially in the dinner scene. I had seen nothing like it, and much of that was on the cinematography!!
Try The Poughkeepsie Tapes. It wasn't the best acting but truly terrifying. Makes one feel helpless that you can't jump in the screen and stop the villan to save the poor victims.
I agree. 2 of my fave movies. They both shocked the Hell out of me. Alex’s creepy clown mask when he rapes that poor lady. The whole freaky dysfunctional family in Texas CSM left me speechless. Surely 2 of the most powerful movies ever produced!
Imagine. My dad rented this and watched it with me when I was about 12 years old. Needless to say, I was fascinated with the movie
John Larroquette from night court was the narrator in the movie his very first movie gig
A perfect horror movie. The perfect name, perfect setting, perfect acting, perfect villains and perfectly shot.
I wouldn't say perfect acting by anyone the main actress screamed her damn head off Paul partain was kind of annoying as Franklin and the others were body count the best actors in it were the family Jim siedow gunnar hansen Edwin Neal because he played crazy so believably and the guy who was the grandpa did well for what was asked being in the makeup.
families like this are far more common than anyone would like to think.
It's comforting to think that there are still families who come together at the dinner table like this without a TV on or any other distractions.
Yeah, creepy hillbillies in rural areas where it goes mostly unnoticed
@@_.Michael.Cordova._ It's the only life I've ever known. Since it doesn't snow here, I always made snowmen out of dried horse manure.
Over here in Germany, the censors were absolutely merciless towards TCM. The film was censored and banned till somewhere around 2011 or so, until a smaller independent film label called Turbine Media, fought for many many years a very expensive legal battle against the censorship institutions and eventually WON. That was a huge win for everyone and in 2012 we finally got the first official and uncensored release of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I bought the Special Edition on release day and still celebrate it as a huge victory for Art. The first time i ever watched this film was back in october of 2001 when my best buddy got a german DVD release of it by a small bootleg label called Laser Paradise which were one of the few labels in Germany who kept releasing movies on Laserdisc and were doing DVD releases before even Major Studios jumped onto that format. This release was really really terrible with a shitty letterboxed Videomaster that looked like a 4th generation NTSC to PAL conversion. All blurry and with ghosting but it kinda added to the "forbidden fruit" character of the film. This release was actually banned as well shortly after, as with every attempt by any label to release the film uncut over here.
It totally blew me away and i became a fan instantly and got my own DVD copy of it. Which was at that time one of my most expensive DVDs ever and cost me 60DM. And to make matters worse it was even a faulty pressing and a already opened returned copy with some playback flaws. Oh the nostalgia :)
This movie will always be important to me because when I was a kid (10) and moved to Texas in 2003 (when the remake came out) I saw this and was scared as hell cause they said it was based on a true story and Letherface was never caught.
Massacre’s signature sound is still the scariest sound in the history of film.
(Let me preface this with the fact there was no internet back then, and urban legends travelled by word of mouth with no way to verify, and we were kids lol) While growing up in Houston in the 70's and 80's there was an urban legend that it came from a true story and that it happened close to Magnolia, Texas (about an hour nw of Houston). In the mid-80's we got our driver licenses and on the way to the Tex Ren Fair we got pulled over by one of their patrols for going 5 over the speed limit.
Anyway, my friend asked the cop whereabouts the incident happened. Well, we didn't know how far that urban legend had travelled (we were 16), so when the question left my friend's mouth that cop turned beet red like someone had flipped a light switch. Went off on a tirade about sick horror movie freaks looking for a murder house and a crazed killer. Yeah, apparently over the years they had been inundated with people trespassing and doing other petty crimes while trying to find Leatherface's true home. He chased us off without giving us a ticket, but we didn't make it to the Fair either since we'd have to drive back through Magnolia to get back home in Houston. Damn if that wasn't the weirdest interaction I've ever had with an officer though lol.
Thanks for the inside look Minty! :D
I heard something similar, except that it was around Austin and drugs were involved, one of the family members got jealous/paranoid and killed one of the friends.... Then killed off the rest
Top 3 favorite movies of all time The Thing , Texas Chainsaw Massacre, True Romance. Yes I had a weird childhood.
Yes!!!! I love this movie!!! The old one was the best!! 😱
One of the greatest movies ever made. When you get past the initial experience of viewing it, there is so much symbolism. Gotta call you out Minty...it GUNNAR-not Gummer.
I'm 48 and this is my favorite. I've watched it at least 500 times over the years. The psychological torment is will never be matched.
Absolutely adore this movie. I look forward to each and every one of your videos. Never stop making them. I wanna see you at 60 doing a “10 things you didn’t know about Ghosbusters 15 The Next Generation” or something idk. Love from The U.K
Haha good one
Absolutely adore this movie ? its awesome, but no one can adore it unless you wanna live or do this ?
@@christopherdunn317 Err what?
This is art-house of horror
This movie made me not trust anyone outside of my comfort zone.
that’s redundant…
@@mildred714 you can say that again.
Eh, kinda boring. 98% more likely to meet new friends than a psycho Ed gein inspired family by talking outside ya comfort zone
@@ddave7510 Are you seriously implying that the 2% are chainsaw wielding maniacs? I guess it depends on where you live, though.
But can you really trust people inside your comfort zone? My mom and brother can be odd sometimes.
When Leatherface is chasing the girl outside, it sounds like someone gunning a two-stroke motorbike.
I love the part when he gets caught on the tree branch and he falls and the chainsaw lands on his leg cutting it… hilarious 😂
@@nsasupporter7557 😂classic!!!
@@nsasupporter7557 didn’t the truck driver throw a wrench or something at Leatherface which made him fall? Been a long time since I’ve watched the movie.
@@orangehillcomics7830 OH YEAH! That’s right. My bad! Something in this video made me think that about the tree branch. Thank you for correcting me 🙂👍
maybe cause the chainsaws are 2 STROKE AS WELL WTF ?!
The funny thing about the farm house where they were filming there was a crop of marijuana behind the house, the owner let them smoke what they wanted
Hopefully that eased some of the pain, stress & discomfort of the shooting conditions (not to mention the nausea!)
Takes weeks to dry n cure.
@@markshaw270 the chlorophyll is not so bad after 2-3 days. but basically, it only needs to be dry to burn.
cuz all you gotta do is grab a bud off and smoke right away, huh?
I found that out from the book gunner wrote about the making of the movie
Let's not forget that, John Larroquette was the narrator of this film. Moreover known for his role as Dan Feilding in "Night Court"(1984-1990), as well as his roles in "Mad House"(1990), "Blind Date"(1987), "Second Sight"(1989), "Stripes" (1981), Richie Rich"(1994), and "Summer Rental"(1985). He also returned to narrate other "Texas Chainsaw" movies such as: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" [remake] (2003), as well as, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The New Beginning" (2006) [prequel].
Fun fact. He was only paid a joint to do the original lol
John Larroquette's Dan Fielding on Night Court has to be one of the most memorable and brilliantly acted TV characters of all time.
Mark please do "The Car" from the 70's.
An absolute classic and up there with Duel and Christine.
Cheers.
My favorite horror movie of all time. True horror. Great video! Saw that you did a video on this and got so excited! You the man minty!
I'm currently penning the British version of this movie: "The Yorkshire Crowbar Fracas".
I still remember buying it on DVD and they accidentally gave me the remake. Because the shop kept only empty cases out. My parents of course saw the original and said that this looks very modern and can't recall these actors. One look at the DVD itself, and the year didn't add up with the packaging.
So of course I returned to the shop and they immediately gave me the original. So I have seen both movies for a low price.
One of two movies that were so intense to me that I had to leave the theater.
Thank you for all the behind the scenes info, Minty, it was fascinating.
What was the other one?
@@michaelminnikin4265, Sid and Nancy. Just too personal for me and my girlfriend at the time.
@@mbryson2899 Fair enough.
If anyone's interested, I can't recommend enough the Joe Bob Briggs commentary for this movie on Shudder. It's worth the price of a month subscription just for this movie. He really goes into why he loves it so much and why he thinks it's the greatest movie ever made and by the time he's done, you tend to agree with him.
I was 9 years old when this film came out here in Canada. I can remember critics hating this film with many calling it was glorifying gratuitous violence. Some even believed that the film was in fact based on a true story. I think I was in my 30s when I first saw it, on TV believe it or not. I was amazed! I thought some of it, such as the shots of the living room with all the animal parts was just macabre, beautiful. Much of the violence is implied and is tame when compared to much of what passes for shock horror today. Which goes to show that less is often more cause nothing is as scary as what the human mind can cook up.
Yeah the violence happens off-camera. And yet this film was banned like crazy for WAYYY too long here in Germany. And the small label Turbine Films fought legal battles for YEAAAARS to get this film unbanned in Germany, while it was already part of the Museum of Modern Art for many years. Imagine that.
FUN HOUSE is an 80's horror gem, also directed by Tobe Hooper! It was one of my Faves!
Actually it's "The Funhouse". "The Fun House" is an alternate title for "The Last House on Dead End Street". It's widely believed that the BBFC got them mixed up when they created the Video Nasties list, as The Funhouse is rather tame (but still a good movie), and The Fun House is much more disturbing and graphic.
This was a great video. I really love and appreciate all the behind the scenes footage you put in. Great job!
Minty, I know more than ten things you didn't know about TTCM. I worked on it, AND worked with multiple people who starred in it. Did you know that many lead characters worked for MHMR Mental Health services here in Austin, Texas? Allen Danziger, who drove the van, was director of multiple depts. Gunnar Hansen may have been Leatheface, but in real life, he was quite a teddy bear. Most of the guys and gals didn't regret doing the movie, but they all trusted Hooper to do them right and he didn't. Me? I splattered red paint all over the inside of the farm house kitchen... The animal blood came later during filming, and I'm so glad I wasn't there for that!
YOU ACTUALLY WORKED WITH THIS MOVIE!!! IT IS SUCH AN HONOR TO MEET YOU
@@silascraven at the time, it was just some graduate film student making a horror film in central Texas, nothing more, a bunch of friends getting to together with a 16mm camera and film. I feel a bit privileged to have been a small part of it.
@@michaelcroos4713 I still can't believe I am meeting with someone who helped developed this classic. What did you do to help with the project: set designer, camera man, stunt coordinator?
@@silascraven I didn't know what it was about, just had to paint bits of the inside of the farmhouse, located near Leander, Texas, north of Austin. Then, coincidentally, volunteered for a daycare program run by Allan Danziger, the driver of the van in the movie. Consequently, I met many of the people in the movie, a few working in the mental health field.
@@michaelcroos4713 did you meet any of the crew, how were they
Well, I'm bald and old, so I remember this movie from back in the day. I didn't see it in the theatre, because I was too young. But when we got our first VCR, I went to the video store as a 13 year old and rented the movie (or hired the movie if I was in Ozzyland) And oh my god, this movie left a mark on my psyche. Because, when it said it was based on a true story, I believe it and back then, there was no internet to look up information. In fact, it was shot so realistically, it had a documentary type feel. I didn't even find out for years that it wasn't a true story. So, for me, this wasn't just a slasher film, it was a "real" horror. But since the character was loosely based on Ed Gein, the horror of story has a ring of truth and a terrible reality.
I saw it for the first time last year, and I'd describe my impression of it the same way. Thanks for sparing me the effort--you said it perfectly :)
Yeah, the greatest part about the movie is that it has a real almost documentary type feel. It's just like watching someone's home movie about what happened to them on their vacation, the acting, editing and camera work really driving that point home.
Well done minty. This movie imo is a masterpiece in any genre of movies. I'm from Texas about two hours from where the movie was filmed. I will make sure a copy of this movie is passed down to all my kids and grandchildren. It will never be forgotten in my family.
Nice Minty! I just finished the audio book for chainsaw confidential and your facts as always were spot on. Have you ever watched trick or treat with Marc Price from family ties? You may have already done a 10 things on that movie but I did not find it. One of my favorite from the 80s, encompassing the great satanic panic, heavy metal music, and bullies getting paid back. All of this plus Ozzy, Gene Simmons and a great soundtrack by Fastway.
Love this film it's all in the mind of horror and fears its rollercoaster with gore
I’m just going to assume Gunner is pronounced Gummer in Australia.
I was going to ask the same thing. lol
At first, I was thinking I heard it wrong, but then he kept saying "Gummer"
Beneath the equatorial line, things are ...... different.
Drove me crazy. Gummer 🤣
Minty can't read well and doesn't know what he's talking about, that's the only explanation. He does this all the time in so many videos. It's very frustrating... If you're going to read from a script with no knowledge of the subject, at least read what's written.
Always a great job. You are amazing and have pure talent!
Oh, the irony! Just last week, I was at the gas station featured in the movie. It plays up its horror movie status with a bunch of posters, shirts, masks, etc. But it was a fun time. Decent BBQ as well, although the spicy sauce is not for the faint of heart.
Why are you continually calling him Gummer??? It's Gunnar!
He's Australian. He can't help it!
oh ok so it wasn't just me I thought he kept saying Gummer but thought I had headcheese stuck in my ears.
@@jebchu2056 Australians can pronounce "Gunnar" fine. It's just Minty that struggles with it.
He’s Australian you dummy
@@normanmccultureboy6492 What the fuck does that have to do with ANYTHING? Australians don't pronounce N's as M's. Where are you people getting this idiocy from?
The 1974 movie was a hard movie to shoot, 1 of the hardest movies I've ever heard of being tough to make, wonder if the 2003 remake was as tumultuous
No. It sucks.
I watch everyone of your episodes love them keep up the awesome work buddy
This movie would have been beyond shocking for its time.
TCM makes Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street look like Child's Play and all those movies came out years later.
You're basically going from Dracula and Frankenstein to the greatest slasher ever made.
Anyone who says The Exorcist was the scariest movie didn't watch this movie, or at least they didn't watch it for a very long time.
"..look like Child's Play..." - I saw what you did there, nice one 😁
Let's not dog the other classics, as I like those more than this I do like this film but those are my jam I guess because I grew up more watching those. I did see Chainsaw 1,2,3 growing up but didn't see them a whole lot back then until last several years the original grew on me I like 2 more but the original I do like more than I used to.
@@jdogjohnson9038 I’m an 80’s kid and I didn’t see TCM until 2003 on TV with commercials and I was blown away.
I loved all the F13 up until 8.
But when you compare the acting and the human bone sets of furniture and human skin for a mask and the twist of it being a family of crazy murderers, no slasher can compare.
The acting is Oscar worthy from Sally and the Hitchhiker.
TCM is one of the top five most picked best horror movies of all time.
The Exorcist only ranks no.1 on my list of greatest cinematic let-downs. Scary my ass, Gunnar Hansen's farts are more frightening than that.
@@jdogjohnson9038 Those are great horror classics, but TCM is the most disturbing and artistic.
I lived in Round Rock, Texas for a few years and driving by one of the houses used in the filming was a little nerve wracking (to say the least).
An all time classic. Thanks Minty
HI Mark! Great writeup, as always! 54 here, & I have to add that the $30M gross is $100+M today. I did look this up a few years ago. Bryanson films was owned by Lou Perry (as he was called), who owned/distributed the '72 mega porn hit Deep Throat, which was said to have grossed $600M (more than Star Wars in '77). There is much debate about this, but it is likely the highest grossing adult film ever. (Its star, Linda Lovelace, later claimed she never saw a dime due to an abusive relationship, but her popularity likely saved her life so she could escape.) TCM is in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, likely b/c it IS a classic & is horrifying & scary in a darkened theater. Just got back from buying a pumpkin from the local farm, where they had "haunted hayrides" for the kids, while Jason w/a machete & Leatherface w/a chainsaw terrorized them (& they loved it!). Jigsaw was in there someplace. But TCM isn't for kids. Still, thanks for a great writeup! :-)
For those who are interested, the podcast (and YT channel) "Infamous America" did a two-fer last summer (2020) of both The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Ed Gein. Was pretty good and worth checking out as a worthy companion to this "10 Things You Didn't Know".
Honestly how do you not have 1m subs
Fun Fact: Before The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Bryanston Distributed John Carpenter's 1974 Sci-Fi Film, "Dark Star".
Thanks Minty ❤ This film and the original Halloween 🎃 are my favorite horror films 🎥 ❤
When I was in the Army, I was stationed at Ft Hood TX and the guys had me convinced it was a true story and happened on the road between Kileen and Austin lol.
Another cool fact, the narrator at the beginning is John Larroquette. He played Dan Fielding on the show "Night Court."
And a Klingon in Star Trek III
i love all the texas chainsaw movies, even the prequels, remakes and spin off ones, they all go together in a crazy way
Thank you, Mark, for another terrific video! Cam you, please, do the 2004 reboot with R. Lee Ermey?
Damn that's funny i was watching the evil dead 2 one with my girlfriend last and said I'm surprised you didn't do a Texas chainsaw massacre one and boom here it is
An episode about The Entity (1982) would be interesting.
Oh yeah, great suggestion!
Minty, please consider doing a video about "The Entity"- that flick freaked me out when I was younger.
Yeah that movie had a huge impact on my girlfriend. Wouldn't shower alone for months, which was kinda alright for me because I had to be there. . .
And yes watching and maybe a hard on but either way it was support and teased.
EPIC. EPIC MOVIE!. I wish o had been alive to see this in the theaters when it was first released. Thank you for this video Minty. I've had been looking forward to this one for a long time. Minty comes in in the clutch..
Pure October juices are flowing now!
Awesome video Minty! ❤
So, are we just gonna graze over the fact about Hooper's doctor friend making an actual skin mask from a cadaver?
What's his story?
Just what I was thinking, LOL!
Yeah, that was a total "hol up" moment for me. I'd be checking the guy's basements for a meat locker full of corpses
I always thought this was because Ed Gein did it. Had no idea it was because his buddy was cutting off dead people faces and making masks out of them. That was a wtf moment for sure
@@Cornerback80 To make sure we're on the same page it was Tobe Hooper's Doctor friend not Ed Gein's which makes it all the more, "wait, what!?".
@@conanclone Based on what was said in this video, the way that it was worded made it absolutely sound like it was Hooper's friend that did that. 🤢
Without this movie we would have a much different Buckethead
I am so happy to have found your channel... x
This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Never found it scary but it's a right laugh.
Same
So-called “old-school” movies, especially horror movies, are way better than the crap that is spewed out nowadays.
Thanks minty, we needed this one
Thank you for another great video. Please consider doing 1988's The Serpent And The Rainbow or 1981's Ghost Story PLEASE 🙏.
I haven't seen either in years but when they came out I really enjoyed both of them.
The legal battles and backstories of everyone in this movie was also quite interesting.
I remember the first time I saw this movie I was around 10 years old. It really scared the crap out of me. Thank you for another great video Minty!! 👍
How ya been
@@tonyacosta4574 hello again 👋 I’m not doing too good. I’m homeless right now but luckily I’ve been able to get some help from churches that have paid for me to stay in a hotel. How have you been?
@@sassykaren7587 I'm good that's totally gnarly to bad u ain't in Michigan I would offer u a couch to crash on and my job is hiring for new blood
@@tonyacosta4574 yeah I wish I lived closer to you too. I will figure something out somehow. I’m on SSDI, but I talked to them and they said that I can earn $940 each month and still get the same check amount each month. Unfortunately right now I don’t know where I’m going to end up living, so there’s no sense in me getting a part time job right now. I’m so glad to hear that you’re doing good. Enjoy the rest of your day my friend.
@@sassykaren7587 well if u need a place til u get on ur feet my door always open if u can find a way to get to Michigan
My oldest brother is around 6’5. He met Gunnar Hansen at a ‘met & greet’ once and he taller my brother. The dude was HUGE. I know his height was listed at 6’4 but he was definitely taller.
I wish you would do a video about Wes craven's New nightmare. I was always curious as to how they did the bed tunnel scene into Freddy's layer, at the end.
Such an iconic movie. Second one is quite fun too.
This is the best day ever!!! My favorite fucking movie next to the Wizard of Oz!!!! Thank you Minty!!!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Wizard of Oz. Hmmm........that makes a weird kind of sense, actually.
That's definitely an interesting combination 😂
The BBFC (UK Censor) refused to give this movie a rating in the UK between 1975 and 1999. When James Ferman (Chairman of the BBFC 75-99) left the BBFC they nearly gave it a '15 and over' rating. They ended up giving it an '18 and over' rating instead. It was shown in some cinemas between 75-99 because local councils can give their own ratings for cinemas (it played mainly in London/Glasgow/Edinburgh/Newcastle). You're right about the lack of empathy shown by the Leatherface family. They worked in slaughter houses and showed the humans in the movie the same lack of empathy that some people show towards animals.
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Hell yeah dude thank you minty this made me and my dad's day this is our favorite movie ever
Trolls under a bridge! Hansel and Gretel!? Its more like The three billy goats gruff. Just sayin
Didn't that inspire Pennywise ("It")?
Trip Trap Trip over the bridge. Standout scary kids story. Dont know how a Hansel and Gretel link was made. There are some uncharacteristic f ups in this one Mr M. Shame as this one is a biggy and would attract a lot of potential newbies, maybe put off by clearly sloppy research. Still love ya tho Minty but need to step it up son. All love tho brother x
I'm just gonna say it. I didn't hate the remake or the prequel.
Texas Chainsaw 3D was HORRENDOUS though. How on earth did those timeline inconsistencies even happen?
Texas chainsaw 3d started off so promising with the recap of the original but the moment they show family with significantly more members than the original and the film taking place only 20ish years later yet is somehow modern day just killed all promise that film had.
@@bigkmoviesandgames I just don't understand how such a huge error can make it into a finished product. Did nobody notice? It's genuinely mind boggling.
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I know it's so crazy! What's even more confusing is the production crew meticulously recreated the original house down to the tiniest detail, even going as far as to photograph the original house (which had been moved and is now a restaurant) and got exact measurements. But despite this they just said F it when it came to continuity with the plot and timeline after the fisrt 2 minutes.
The reason is in the title... "3D". Whenever you get a film with the 3D tag right in the title, you can bet your life its been put together entirely by boardroom suits strangling the life out of the creative team for the sake of a gimmick
This was a really good episode 👏 👌 I actually didn't know 10 things this time.
Just watched this...I was lucky enough to be one of the first in my town to see it when it came out. I was 13, and it was banned all over WI where I'm at. I remember laying in bed one night with my earbuds listening to the radio, and the DJs were talking about it months ahead of its showing. It was going to be one time only, at midnight. It's a University town, so I'm sure that's why it was allowed one time lol. I begged my mom to take me. She was into "scary" books, and I was relentless for three months. Finally, she gave in, and none of my friend's parents would let them go, so yea, I was feeling pretty special lol. A few days prior, after the 10pm news, there was a commercial for it...and I caught it. I remember seeing the girl with the swimsuit and shorts (as he's carrying her to the meat hook) and all I could think of was how my hair was just like hers and I wore that same kind of clothes, I couldn't wait to see it!! I thought of that ad for days...and as the night of the movie neared, I was getting to the point that I was having second thoughts. At that time, hell, life was a "Leave it to Beaver" mentality. I remember telling mom that because it was so late, we didn't have to go. She looked at me and said, "you begged me for three months, we're going". We got there, and we were like the fifth in line, the line soon grew to over a block long. I remember they were putting up the movie poster for Rocky Horror Picture Show, and thinking it looks horrible (lol). I will never forget seeing that movie. Someone actually threw up during it and many left early. "Jim", reminded me of someone I knew so when he was hit first, it really got to me...and the meat hook, and freezer...wow, it was a hell of a show. lol. The next day, mom and I were washing clothes, and dad and my brother were cleaning the garage. I was hanging sheets on the clothesline when Dad came up on the other side of the sheet and started a chainsaw. Omg...talk about fright!!! Mom came running out of the house as dad and my brother were laughing like crazy...and she yelled "Dennis!!! That is NOT funny!!! You didn't see that movie...". lol. I can't remember what else she yelled...I was literally frozen with tears running out of my eyes. When VHS tapes came out it was the first movie I bought. Its still my #1 fav. scary movie.
TAGLINES:
"Who will survive and what will be left of them?"
"Can you survive... It happened."
"What happened is true. Now the motion picture that's just as real."
"Once you stop screaming, then you'll start talking about it."
"America's Most Bizarre and Brutal Crimes!"