THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974): The $140,000 Nightmare That Terrified the World | Horror Facts

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974): The $140,000 Nightmare That Terrified the World | Horror Facts Shot in thirty-two days of hundred-degree Texas heat for less than a hundred and forty thousand dollars, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was marketed as a true story, rated X, and banned in more than a dozen countries — and then it made more than thirty million dollars. This is the true story of Tobe Hooper's sweat-soaked nightmare: the department-store chainsaw epiphany, the Ed Gein research, Gunnar Hansen's eight-hundred-dollar performance, the twenty-six-hour dinner scene where the blood was real, the British ban that outlawed the word "chainsaw," and the legacy that put a horror film in the Museum of Modern Art. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open 0:37 The Department Store 2:16 The Money Men 3:32 The Cast 4:57 The House of Bones 6:21 Thirty-Two Days of Hell 7:38 The Dinner Scene 8:43 Rated X, Banned Everywhere 9:59 The Legacy All stills are posters, promotional photos, production stills, and historical images. No film footage is used. Subscribe to Horror Facts for a new horror movie deep dive every day. #HorrorFacts #TexasChainsawMassacre #TobeHooper #Leatherface #70sHorror #CultClassic #HorrorMovies #BannedFilms #HorrorHistory #MovieFacts #Slasher #GunnarHansen