TCM *Great info*

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TCM- this web site I am about to post is the best I have seen for the must hardcore fans of the original film. What do you want to know about it?

Was it a true story?

Were are the actors now?

Where was the film made?

Do you want to E-mail the actors?

Where is the house now?

Well all this info above is provided on this site.

I actually thought that TCM was a true event, but after reading this web page... it just broke my heart, but did it turn on me and now I do not like the movie?
Hell nah!! Love the movie.


As a matter of a fact.
I just found out from this site that the cemetery that was shown in TCM.... that cemetery is right down from my house. Pretty creepy if you ask me.
Also the home that the movie was shot it is off of hwy 1325 which is about 15 minutes from me and I saw the home before , but could not get to it b/c of the barb-wire fence. Now it has moved though

Cool info guys. I just wanted to share.
Enjoy!!

http://www.texaschainsawmassacre.net/TCMMain.html



BTW... I know I mention this before,,, but Allen Danziger which was the driver of the VAN,, well his daughter works at the company I work for. I talk to her everyday,,, so off with a autograph on my TCM dvd.

I just discovered this site last night. Certainly worth a look.

I was under the impression that TCM was based on various serial killer stories (Gacy and the like), not just one. I never once thought Leatherface was an actual person, just a fictionalized account of several. Interesting.

Originally Posted by John

I just discovered this site last night. Certainly worth a look.

[Cantona07]

Remaking the ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' is just as smart as crossing the highway with your eyes closed. The TCM is a film which I would categorise as un-remakeable, although it has been done, it has to be good as or at least surpass the original. Can it surpass the original???

I bet the next fucking remake will be Nightmare on Elm Street. Oh ys I have to also live with Dawn of the Dead Remake (again will it surpass the classic original) its like don't even think about it. Mind you I will be watching them both.

This is a cool site, but it sucks that you have to give a donation in order to e-mail the stars of TCM. Which is a shame, I really wanted to e-mail Gunnar Hansen to see how he was since we last chatted at Horrorfind. He's a real nice, down-to-earth person, as is Ken Foree.

Actually, you are right Hammerfan, although the character of leatherface (along with Norman Bates from Psycho, and at least one other well known villan that I can't remember) is based mainly on Ed Gien, the character was also influenced by other serial killers (Such as Jeffery Dahmer) as was the rest of the cannibalistic family... although, I believe the grandfather was an entirely original character

Ed Gein was the person I was thinking of. For some reason I get the names Gacy and Gein mixed up. Gacy was the one who dressed as a clown.

Originally Posted by H0MOSareGAY

Actually, you are right Hammerfan, although the character of leatherface (along with Norman Bates from Psycho, and at least one other well known villan that I can't remember) is based mainly on Ed Gien, the character was also influenced by other serial killers (Such as Jeffery Dahmer) as was the rest of the cannibalistic family... although, I believe the grandfather was an entirely original character

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Originally Posted by H0MOSareGAY

based mainly on Ed Gien, the character was also influenced by other serial killers (Such as Jeffery Dahmer)

So what? They saw into the future?

Yeah.. I doubt Dahmer was an influance since the movie pre-dates him (well...what he's known for anyway). Gein has been the bases (in some way) for: Psycho, TCM, 3 women and a meathook, Deranged, Ed Gein (duh), Silence of the Lambs, and I'm sure many others...But FYI I don't think he acutally "killed" that many people. He was just a fun guy that liked to wear women's skin and fuck their dead bodies. He was also quite the furnature designer.

Originally Posted by H0MOSareGAY

...along with Norman Bates from Psycho, and at least one other well known villan...

Hannibal Lecter is often mentioned as having been inspired by Ed Gein.

EDIT: No, wait a minute, that's not quite right. Buffalo Bill from SOTL was based on Gein. Hannibal was more closely based upon Albert Fish. I think.

Originally Posted by mafianinja

...But FYI I don't think he acutally "killed" that many people. He was just a fun guy that liked to wear women's skin and fuck their dead bodies. He was also quite the furnature designer.

Only two confirmed victims, but speculation abounds as to how many of the body parts found in his farmhouse were from the local cemetery and how many were from victims of Ed himself.

Originally Posted by mafianinja

Yeah.. I doubt Dahmer was an influance since the movie pre-dates him (well...what he's known for anyway).

Your right there, I am thinking of someone else, Dahmer is the one who killed his gay lovers and they found a severed penis in his fridge... I have to ask my friend who is into all this serial killer stuff, he made me watch a movie on one of them from the sixties or the early seventies who was a cannibal or something like that and he told me that it somehow related to Leatherface or someone else in TCM... I will post the name if I find out...

Yeah, Hannibal and Buffalo Bill are the other ones I was thinkin' of based on Ed, obviously Buffalo Bill more than Hannibal, but there is still a relation. Of course, what movie killer has not been inspired in one small way by Ed? Even Jason was loosely influenced by Ed!