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 is considered one of the greatest — and most controversial — of horror films, and a major influence on the genre.

" 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.

He also received a Master of Science degree from Texas A & I College and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Okla..

In October 2007, the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin received a 10-year, $ 38 million subcontract to conduct the first intensively monitored, long-term project in the United States studying the feasibility of injecting a large volume of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > for underground storage.

He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.

Wallach was graduated in 1936 from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in history and in 1938 received a masters degree in education from the City College of New York.

At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.

In 1961 American experimenters Robert Biard and Gary Pittman, working at Texas Instruments, found that GaAs emitted infrared radiation when electric current was applied and received the patent for the infrared LED.

Wenders has already received many awards, including the Golden Lion for The State of Things at the Venice Film Festival ( 1982 ); the Palme d ' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his movie Paris, Texas ; and Best Direction for Wings of Desire in the 1987 Bavarian Film Awards and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

In the week before the convention opened, Kennedy received two new challengers when Lyndon B. Johnson, the powerful Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the party's nominee in 1952 and 1956, officially announced their candidacies ( they had both privately been working for the nomination for some time ).

Chris Taylor, Jupiter Research Corporation, Houston, Texas, along with a private individual Robert Hendry and the original theorist Modanese conducted an analysis of the suitability of impulse gravity generators for Earth-to-orbit, interplanetary, and interstellar applications, this was repeated again in 2008 and a United States and European patent was received.

In 1948 he became a flight instructor at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, then attended the amphibious warfare school and received a staff assignment.

He subsequently entered flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas and Pensacola, Florida, and received his Naval Aviator wings in 1947.

was previewed in Houston, Texas, where it received high marks from viewers.

Although the CIA in general and Charlie Wilson, a Texas Congressman, have received most of the attention, the key architect of this strategy was Michael G. Vickers, a young Paramilitary Officer.

In 1854 his widow received a payment certificate for $ 24. 00 from Texas.

In 1936, Val Verde County received Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 5625 to commemorate its founding.

She was daughter of Maria Josefa Cavazos, and granddaughter of Don José Narciso Cavazos Gonzalez-Hildago who in 1792 received the largest land grant in Texas.

This is tied for the second-highest percentage of votes Bush received for any county in the US ( in both 2000 and 2004 ), and it is the highest percentage during the 2004 election, ( only Glasscock County, Texas, at 93. 1 percent, had a higher percentage in the 2000 Presidential election, though in both instances the percentages are skewed by the very small number of voters ).

Empresarios " Sterling C. Robertson: Texas Association / Nashville Co ." and Robert Leftwich received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature to settle 800 families.

She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in history.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1955.

He also received an assignment to the Department of Texas, with orders to perform a survey of Texas rivers and harbors.

This tradition began when in 1972, Worthington received a report that the Texas city of Cuero had staged a live turkey race-a turkey trot-as part of its turkey celebration.

The ranch property, operated as Buck and Doe Run Valley Farms, Inc., received Texas longhorn cattle shipped north by railroad for fattening on the lush grass of eastern Pennsylvania before being delivered to cattle markets for sale and slaughter.