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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 film, a re-imagining of the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The film was directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Michael Bay. It was released on October 17, 2003 in North America. The film grossed $107 million worldwide. Daniel Pearl, the cinematographer for the original film, reprised the position for this movie. Also reprising his role from the original film is narrator John Larroquette.
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“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” was the first horror film to change the blueprints. It was the first nihilistic horror movie, and it was the first to feel so real. Up until that point in horror history, the horror movies were very conservative, rarely dancing away from the genre’s clichés. (This is still true today, as far too many of the films of what should be the most daring genre never stray too far from the formulas that make them work. Part of that can be blamed on the audience, which doesn’t like to have its expectations tweaked, but it is the job of the creator to do that very thing, and they are failing.) Tobe Hooper’s film changed that. It had a fairy tale beginning (kids off to see grandpa’s house) and a real fairy tale ending (as opposed to the sanitized conclusions the original fairy tales had tacked on so as not to disturb children), as its only surviving protagonist ended the film by losing her sanity while the villain survived, his chainsaw swinging in the air as he did his dance against the rising sun.
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As a part of a double feature following the Walter Matthau thriller The Taking of the Pelham One, Two Three - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would make world wide headlines. The audience having heard nothing about the low budget second feature responded to this onslaught of horror by throwing up, crying, and in the famed San Francisco Empire Theater, storming the ticket booth throwing punches. Two city officials in the audience threatened to sue as children stood to the side in hysterics. The monstrous retarded chainsaw wielding maniac known as "Leatherface," was soon to be a sinister American icon of sorts.
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The original 1974 film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, shocked and stunned audiences with its bone-chilling realism. The horrifying story, drawn from a series of true events, is considered by many to be one of the greatest thrillers of all time and a landmark of terror that has influenced countless films in its wake. Iconic in popular culture, its menacing evil character, "Leatherface," will forever be one of the most recognizable screen villains.
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In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), it is claimed that on August 18, 1973 five young adults set out for a concert in Dallas, Texas and traveled the back roads to get there. Near Hewitt, Texas they narrowly missed hitting a teenage girl (Lauren German) wandering in the middle of the road. She is in walking shock. As the troupe sought assistance for the girl, silent and nearly comatose, she slowly started to speak and told a tale of horror and murder.
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The answer to these questions is that the leading character in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is loosely based on the real life man, Ed Gein. Ed Gein was one of two sons born to George and Augusta Gein. Ed's father, George, was a hard working farmer. His mother was overbearing. Ed was born in 1906 and his brother Henry was born five years before. George became an alcoholic and died in 1940.
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