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Before it was over, the budget would balloon to just over $100,000. My life, and the lives of many, many others would be unimaginably different, if not for him.вЂњД«oth production and post-production were fraught with problems. вЂњI didnвЂ™t fully appreciate it then,вЂќ Henkel says, вЂњbut it was an enormous leap of faith on BillвЂ™s part. Parsley became the filmвЂ™s principal investor. Henkel credits Skaaren with giving the film its final title, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and it was Skaaren who put Hooper and Henkel together with former state legislator, William J. Bozman-as it happened-had been a friend and classmate of Warren SkaarenвЂ™s at Rice University, and Skaaren was then Governor Preston SmithвЂ™s choice as the inaugural Commissioner of the newly-formed Texas Film Commission. FeigelsonвЂ™s indy film, Windsplitter, and Henkel wanted Bozman to Production Manage on Leatherface (the filmвЂ™s working title). They were prepared for the worst with three separate budgets: a high-end budget of $60,000.00, a mid-range budget of $40,000.00, and a desperation black and white budget of $25,000.00.ДЄ friend of HenkelвЂ™s who got the script was Ron Bozman. Once they had a completed script, Hooper and Henkel-without connections to investors willing to put money into high risk, low budget, independent films-got the script out to any and everyone they felt might lead them to an investor. Our criterion was, if I kept him chuckling, we were doing okay.вЂќ

IвЂ™d bang out a half-dozen pages and bring them in to Tobe.

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Late nights Henkel would walk over to HooperвЂ™s, where they, вЂњвЂ¦squatted on the dining room floor and worked out the arc of the scenes.вЂќ Apparently there was no furniture-then Henkel would go out to the kitchen, вЂњвЂ¦there was a linoleum topped table and I had an old manual typewriter.

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Leatherface is a horror icon, and 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is a landmark movie that remains essential viewing for every horror buff.In the winter of вЂ™73 both Hooper and Henkel had day jobs, Hooper directing commercials, industrial, and political spots for Filmhouse, a local Austin production company, while Henkel worked as a commercial illustrator. I don't think it's an exaggeration to compare it to Boris Karloff in the original 'Frankenstein'. An amazing performance with his features obscured and no real dialogue to speak of. Gunnar Hansen is absolutely extraordinary as Leatherface. One would have thought both would have went on to bigger things watching their performances in this movie but sadly it wasn't meant to be. Partain (who went on to bit parts in 70s Drive-In faves 'Race With The Devil' and 'Rolling Thunder' and very little else).

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The cast, all unknowns at the time, and from what we know know paid diddley squat, are all pretty good, especially Marilyn Burns (who Hooper used in his underrated 'Eaten Alive' and who also appeared in the Charles Manson TV biopic 'Helter Skelter'), and whiny paraplegic Paul A.

The terror isn't compromised, the uneasy giggles make the extreme images even more difficult to dismiss. There is an undercurrent of bizarre black humour underneath the film, a lot subtler than the sequel and other more obvious 'horror comedies'. This movie was one of the most controversial of the 1970s, censored or banned here in Australia, and in Britain, and despite the hundreds of horror movies released since, it is still powerful and fresh. Uncompromising movies, pure horror that makes no attempt to water themselves down and court a mainstream audience. These actors never have to set in front of a camera again, they'll never be forgotten by horror buffs worldwide! In this day and age of cynically conceived and marketed MTV-friendly teen slashers it's a revelation to see old school horror classics like this, Romero's 'Night Of The Living Dead' and Craven's 'Last House On The Left'. As would Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) and his twisted family played by Edwin Neal and Jim Siedow, and immortal scream queen Marilyn Burns. Hooper's subsequent career has ben extremely uneven, and frequently disappointing, but even if he never made another movie he would still be a legendary figure.

Tobe Hopper's 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is a landmark low budget horror movie which must be considered a modern classic.

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