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film: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake)

kelley

kelley

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Ok the other night I caught the TCM on HBO and man I love that movie in a weird horror flick way. Anyway out of all the horror movies I have seen that is the only one that ever messed with me. Well lastnight I was talking to my friend on the phone and he told me ... You know why that movies messes with you and none of the others did? I was like no why? He said because it is a true story. So I was like really? Well I went on a search all over search engines and read and read. I found alot of horror movies like Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, and others. All based on the killer Ed Gein from Wisconsin. He use to murder older woman and eat them, make furniture out of bones, where their skin ext. Really gorey stuff. Then my Dad says no no it is based on a man who went crazy in Texas with a chainsaw. Someone else said No No No it was based on a man in New York who went crazy after his mom abused him. My debate is here...Is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre True? Based on a True Story? If based on a true which story is it based on? I read about 40 websites and most point to Ed Gein. Anyhow I thought this might be an interesting debate. Especially for horror buffs.
8o
 
Ed Gien.....If you go to blockbuster they have a movie about him, along with many other serial killers.
 
I have a book entitled "Deviant: The shocking true story of Ed Gein, the origional Psycho."

To say that this guy was one sick fuck would be a drastic understatement.

8o
 
I was just telling ^^Deja the other day how that movie was the scariest i ever seen. I saw it probably in 1986 or '87 and after i saw it i told myself that i would NEVER watch another scary movie again. From that day forward my motto became "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
I haven't watched a scary movie since.

I am happy to hear that it is not really true as i thought it was.
 
Bless You Finder, I love this forum and it hardly gets used, maybe if it was movie talk instead on the front page we'd get more visits, anyway, It is mostly based on Ed Gein, the guy was one strange person yes, serial killer though is kinda understated, he only killed 3 people if that, though he did like digging up hundreds of graves, thats how in the previews for the remake, the based on a true story, cause leatherface was inspired from ed, but the whole crazy family in texas thing not true, but the reason the first one scares me so much is cause of how dirty it is, I mean the grain of the film, the look, like it was documentary, like we aren't watching a movie but these poor kids get butchered for real
 
How instense is it when the girl cries out to the family whose about to kill her "please, i'll do anything". That truly touched me because for once.. out of all the movies i have watched i believed her. You could feel how horrified and scared she was. All she wanted was her freedom.

Since watching TCM 3 years ago, i've been fascinated with serial killers and related fictional stories. That movie just makes you want to know more
 
Riot Grrrl said:

Since watching TCM 3 years ago, i've been fascinated with serial killers and related fictional stories. That movie just makes you want to know more
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I love true life crime books even though i hate movies. Try an Ann Rule book to start. She's an excellent write who has worked for the FBI. She also unknowingly worked side by side and befriended Ted Bundy during his serial killing days and later wrote The Stranger Beside me about him. I love all her work though especailly her early stuff.

Once you read true life crime you can never read fiction again. Plus, if it gets graphic it is much easier to skip over in a book. :)
 
^^ Yeah, I've got a couple serial Killer books. But what interests me is what a fictional writer can do with true crime. They can take a true crime story and advance it even further to the depths of your imagination.

See if you can find any Poppy Z. Brite books. In particular a book she wrote "Exquisite Corpse" - a book about what MIGHT have happened if Jeffrey Dahmer had of escaped from prison.

Though i'll look out for some Ann Rule books
 
^^^Ahhh, well my friend, then you havent read the right books. The truth is always stranger then fiction.
 
We have a bunch of Ann Rule books here at my house.
I've also seen the movie they made out of "A stranger beside me"
(I think it was a lifetime movie or something)

Beanergrl your not the only one who feels that way about
TCM..my friends mom saw it and got so disturbed she didn't
hardley eat for a long time..and she wouldn't let her daughter
watch scary movies forever.
*LOL* I think it is a little silly..to me, if it was disturbing it
did it's job..although there are some things that can go
overboard. TCM was REALLY wicked for the time it came out.
It also has this quiet, creepy late afternoon feel to it (don't
know exactly what that means but it's the best way I
can think to say it).
Maybe I am sick, but I am SOOO excited to see the remake.
They better have done it right.
 
^^ All true life crime movies are books first. I like make bets with myself after reading them on if they will make it to film or not.

I have a very hard time reading fiction at all. Even with biographies..i find them so much more entertaining then a made up book.
For example, even movies like Riding in Cars With Boys and Fast Times At Ridgemont High were true stories before they were movies. In both cases the books are so much better.
 
^^ You know funny you mention that, he is my dads most favorite writer of all times. And i'll tell you something i never told anyone else. One of my first erotic things i ever read that got me hot and bothered at an oh so tender age came from his book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

I can't recall what it was in the book but i remember being intrigued by the books cover as it was a pretty girl with an enormous thumb hitch hiking. I picked up the book and skimmed through it and found a sexy part and the rest was history. Bye,bye Judy Blume & hello Mom and Dads books.

Other then that though i really haven't dipped into him. Recommend a book and i'll get it from my Dad.

I dunno.. maybe i'm a nerd but i read Nicholas and Alexandra at a young age (Anastasia is my namesake) and then Helter Skelter and i've been hooked on true stories since. Maybe it's just me but i have such a hard time getting into most fiction. I just now read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake)

I just saw the new version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Without going into any real detail, it saddened me a great deal.

I think it's sacreligious that a whole new generation of kids will grow up thinking THIS is THE Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a BAD movie. In fact, it was pretty well done. It just didn't need to be called Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They could have re-named the Leatherface character and given him something other than a chainsaw, and it could have been a very soild horror film of it's very own.

(*very minor spoilers below*)

There are very few similarities to the first film. The "family" in the first was much more sadistic and insane. In this film they were just really creepy. The only character from the first film was Leatherface. Gone are the Hitch hiker, Grampa and Father. Instead, they got R. Lee Ermy to do what he does in every movie he's ever been in, scream in people's faces. They got some backwoods little kid to be the "bad guy with the heart of gold" character, and the main heroine went from the screaming victim of circumstance she was in the first movie to being the strong, sexy survivor that Hollywood loves shoving down our throats these days (think Eliza Dushku from Wrong Turn). Perhaps the biggest travesty of all was when Leatherface took off his mask, revealing his real face. That just did NOT need to be done.

Overall, it was an enjoyable movie. I just wish they had a little more respect for the first movie, a piece of film history which can never be duplicated.

Adios,
Steve
 
I have yet to see this, but from what you're telling me it seems like they totally fucked up the whole dinner scene, which is what made Texas Chainsaw Massacre the movie it is. It was one of the most sadistic things in movies of its time, and they toned it down? Ugh.
 
I bought the DVD about a week ago. Mainly because this movie is a classic.
Though I had no idea that they made a new version of it. I can just see them remaking Evil Dead now 8(
 
-spiderman- said:
I have yet to see this, but from what you're telling me it seems like they totally fucked up the whole dinner scene, which is what made Texas Chainsaw Massacre the movie it is. It was one of the most sadistic things in movies of its time, and they toned it down? Ugh.
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If by "toned down" you mean "removed entirely" then yeah, you could say they toned it down... a bit.



Originally posted by Riot Grrrl
I can just see them remaking Evil Dead now
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Fortunatly, we haven't gotten to that point yet. UNfortunatly, you can look for a big-budget Hollywood remake of the zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" early next year.

Adios,
Steve
 
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