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Texas Horror

tin22tin22 Member Posts: 731 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
I didn't know it was inspired by a true story. I never seen the film, but I heard it's pretty gore.Making a remake of the original. Friend showed me this.

http://www.texaschainsawmovie.com/
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  • MillerMiller Member Posts: 175 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hope this one's better than the other ones they've made. It is based on a "true" story. But the true story is nothing like the movies. Actually, the true story is pretty laim.
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  • ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
    edited November -1
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a few well-known real life cases.

    One was Ed Gein, a cannibal and a murderer. His real life home furnishings (chairs made of human remains, lamp shades of women's faces) inspired the art direction for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Ed Gein either murdered his culinary victims (typically transients or prostitutes) or dug up recently-buried folks from the local graveyard. This took place in Wisconsin in the 1940s and inspired the movie "Psycho."

    Herman Mudgett had a specially-designed "murder house" wherein he would lure women and dump them into the maze-like innards of his basement. Designed to be one enormous maze to which only he knew the way out, Mudgett would torment his hapless victims for hours if not days before killing them. This took place in Chicago at the turn of the 20th Century and was part of an insurance scam in which his victims, carefully picked for their wealth, would sign over insurance policies to him. He was eventually captured in Texas on charges of horse theft and extradited to Philadelphia when he felt he had a better chance of facing charges for murder (one of his victims was from Pennsylvania) than facing one charge of horse theft in Texas.

    Albert Fish, also a cannibal and murderer, was a delusional sadomasochist operating out of upstate New York in the 1920-30s. He was caught and convicted for the kidnapping and murder of 12 year-old Grace Budd. He admitted to dozens of murders, but his dim memory prevented prosecutors from being able to link him to any other disappearances or murders. Executed in 1936 or 1938 (I can't remember), Albert Fish was the oldest man to be executed by the state of New York. As a side note, Fish had stuck so many needles into himself as part of his masochistic tendencies that he shorted out the circuit for the electric chair when they delivered the first jolt. It took a second to finish him off.

    These three are simply the most well-known. I'm sure a few other more obscure killers added their touch to that movie.
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  • tin22tin22 Member Posts: 731 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They all sound sick to me. I think it's best they leave world. I can't believe you can actually get this sick. Scary stuff!
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