The Texas Chain Saw Massacre writer / creator Kim Henkel cited " A Modest Proposal " as an influence in scripting his 2011 horror film " Boneboys ," directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks.

The 1973 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( along with the 2003 remake ) claims to be based on true events, but this is not the case.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

Examples of this genre include Psycho, Black Christmas, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prom Night, Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Child's Play, Candyman, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American exploitation-horror film, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel.

Upon its October 1974 release, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was banned outright in several countries, and numerous theaters later stopped showing the film in response to complaints about its violence.

The concept for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arose in the early 1970s while Tobe Hooper was working as an assistant film director at the University of Texas at Austin and as a documentary cameraman.

The farmhouse used for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was moved from La Frontera ( Round Rock, Texas ) | La Frontera to Kingsland, Texas, and restored as a restaurant.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was mainly shot using an Eclair NPR 16 mm camera with fine-grain, low-speed film that required four times more light than modern digital cameras.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre premiered on October 1, 1974, in Austin, Texas, almost a year after filming concluded.

After its initial British release, including a one-year theatrical run in London, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was initially banned on the advice of British Board of Film Classification ( BBFC ) Secretary Stephen Murphy, and subsequently by his successor, James Ferman.

The following year the BBFC passed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for release with an 18 certificate ( indicating that it should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 ), and it was broadcast a year later on Channel 4.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre received a mixed reaction upon its initial release.

" Don Sumner called The Texas Chain Saw Massacre a classic that not only introduced a new villain to the horror pantheon but also influenced an entire generation of filmmakers.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was selected for the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Directors ' Fortnight and London Film Festival.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was inducted into the Horror Hall of Fame in 1990, with director Hooper accepting the award, and it is part of the permanent collection of New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

The specific case of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre provides support for this argument: three men are killed in quick fashion, but one woman is brutally slaughtered — hung on a meathook — and the surviving woman endures physical and mental torture.

On first viewing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre they experienced symptoms of depression and anxiety ; however, upon subsequent viewing they found the violence against women less offensive and more enjoyable.

" If Psycho began an exploration of a new sense of absurdity in contemporary life, of the collapse of causality and the diseased underbelly of American Gothic ", he writes, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " carries this exploration to a logical conclusion, addressing many of the issues of Hitchcock's film while refusing comforting closure ".

In addition to 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead, as well as 2003's remake of both Herschell Gordon Lewis ' cult classic 2001 Maniacs and the remake of Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was also the 2007 Rob Zombie written and directed remake of John Carpenter's Halloween.

A reinforcement militia, however, was defeated by Mexican soldiers and Texas Cherokee Indians on September 18 during the Dawson Massacre.

Even though his character is not named Django ( in the Italian versions, that is ), Franco Nero brings a similar ambience to Texas, Adios and Massacre Time where the hero must confront surprising ( and dangerous ) family relations.

In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

Dallas and North Texas is known world-wide as the manufacturing and distribution center of cotton gin machinery and supplies, valued in the millions of dollars.

It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.

Sailing activity is slowed down by Texas northers, but power cruisers can move freely, poking into the San Jacinto, Trinity and Brazos rivers ( fine tarpon fishing in the Brazos ) or pushing eastward to the pirate country of Barataria.

Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.

* Austin County, Texas ( note that Austin, Texas, is located in Travis County, Texas )

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

* 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

* 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.

* An American high school, Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas, is named after him

Austin is also home to numerous child developmental institutions including the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, the Central Texas Autism Center, Autism Early Learning Center, Johnson Center for Child Health and Development and many more.

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* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A & M graduates who had died in the previous year.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic ecozone, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos Rivers in Texas as well as the central and eastern parts of Mexico and Somalia.

In Texas hold ' em, a card is burned before the flop, before the turn, and before the river.

For example, in the U. S. states of California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, barratry is a misdemeanor ; in Texas, a misdemeanor on the first conviction, but a felony on subsequent convictions.

He is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A & M University.

Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and finally in Austin, Texas.