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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an American horror franchise created by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper.It consists of nine films, comics, a novel, and two video game adaptations. The franchise focuses on the cannibalistic spree killer Leatherface (who uses a chainsaw as his signature weapon) and his family, who terrorize unsuspecting visitors to their territories in the desolate Texas countryside ...
Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie is a 2013 non-fiction book by the actor Gunnar Hansen, who is best known for portraying Leatherface in Tobe Hooper's film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The book was first released on September 24, 2013 through Chronicle Books and covers the making of the iconic slasher ...
Ken Driggs wrote a book about the murders, Evil Among Us: The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders. The book was published by Signature Books, a Salt Lake City, Utah company that specializes in Mormon-related topics. Kleasen was the subject of a 2003 British documentary titled The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The popularity of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film-series and of its main character, Leatherface, led to the publication of several comic books based on the franchise.In 1991, Northstar Comics released a miniseries titled Leatherface — a loose adaptation of Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III — that ran for four issues.
In October 1974, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre birthed Leatherface, ... Much like the influence Hooper's original had on a burgeoning subgenre, the $100 million-plus gross of 2003's reimagining ...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Companion. Titan Books. pp. 116– 119. ISBN 9781840236606. Martin, John Wiley (2007). Seduction of the Gullible: The Truth Behind the Video Nasty Scandal. Stray Cat. ISBN 978-0-9533261-8-1. McKenna, Mark (2020). Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties. Edinburgh University Press.
Gunnar Milton Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015) was an Icelandic-born American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Anticipating the inevitable guts and gore and murderous mayhem, I screened Netflix’s new “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” on my TV in broad daylight, with sunlight streaming through the windows and ...