“Thank God.All content included on this site, such as text (including but not limited to CRAVE THE AUTO, CRAVE SPORTS CO & CRAVETHEAUTO.COM), graphics, logos, images, source code, and databases is the property of Crave Sports Company and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. “Did they finally change the movie?” Burns asks. and discovered while I was living this very different life in Maine, the picture was becoming more and more famous, and I had become this mystery man.”Īcross the way, the videocassette booth has replaced “Chainsaw” with a cheesy version of “Dracula” starring Jack Palance. “I thought it would maybe win a small cult of fans, like ‘Two Thousand Maniacs.’ A couple of years later, I came out to L.A. Gunnar Hansen, who essayed the immortal role of Leatherface, the psychopathic, chain saw-wielding anti-hero for a disaffected generation, left Texas soon after the film wrapped to write in Maine. I thought, maybe there is something to this film.” “But I remember when Roger Ebert reviewed it, he compared me to Dustin Hoffman in ‘Little Big Man’. “I had little faith in it,” recalls Dugan, who today works on industrial films in Indiana.
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But the bodies in the movie were brought in from India-at that time, you could buy human bodies and legally bring them into the country,” Neal explains. “There was all this horrible press, that we actually killed someone during the movie. The woes continued upon the film’s release-it was assailed for its graphic nature. We shot for 26 hours, and when they finally pulled the mask off, all the blood had drained out of my head.” You can only be extremely uncomfortable for so long before your mind goes elsewhere. “I had a pound of liquid latex makeup on my head, and I just kind of zoned out. John Dugan, who portrayed the grandfather who still harbored a little bit of blood lust, if not much life, had a similarly unpleasant experience. I was only there one week, and that week almost killed me.” “I was the one SAG (Screen Actors Guild) actor. Jim Siedow, who retired six years ago in Houston from a life of acting and making commercials, got the gig as the Old Man to appease a union regulation.
I hurt my leg-that limping at the end of the movie wasn’t acting.” When they cut my finger, they forgot to tape up the knife edge. We were up to Take 48, and only around Take 30 did it occur to someone to say, ‘Hey, she’s bleeding maybe she needs some kneepads.’. “Then there was this scene where I was running through smoke and falling down. “That bruise on my face matched in continuity all through the picture because it was real. This is the only place you see these kind of people-this and Hollywood Boulevard.”īurns, who still acts in theater and films in Houston, recalls how physically demanding the role was. “They’re trucked in from someplace just to these shows, then when they’re over, they’re herded back into trucks and taken back to wherever. “Some of these people don’t exist outside of these shows,” jokes Neal, who still acts and produces in Austin, Tex. A booth selling horror videocassettes serenades the “Chainsaw” cast from across the aisle with what Marilyn Burns, who starred as Sally, the sole survivor of the ordeal, estimates is the seventh replay of “Massacre” today.Ī doting fan tries to flirt with Burns: “You’re just as lovely as you were 20 years ago.” Hard-core fans pay to have their picture taken wearing Leatherface’s original butcher apron. Tobe Hooper’s directorial debut effort is considered a classic of its genre, paving the way, for better or worse, for all the titillating yet bizarrely moralistic horror fables in which teens with dubiously set moral compasses receive grisly punishments far exceeding the gravity of their misdeeds.Īt this fan expo, vendors and patrons haggle over the prices of old copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland a guy in an Elvira T-Shirt loudly describes some forgotten classic in which someone’s blood and brains ran copiously from his ears busty, fright-flick survivors sit around peddling glossy publicity stills. Shot for $140,000, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” made approximately $25 million upon its initial release.
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