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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.
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 ".

Texas and Massacre
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.

Texas and writer
The Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.
A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.
Gerald Duff, novelist and short story writer, has set several of his works in the territory of the Sabine, including the stories " Texas Wherever You Look ," " The Way a Blind Man Tracks Light ," and " Redemption ".
Thus one writer alleges that Johnson's campaign manager, future Texas governor John B. Connally, was connected with 202 ballots in Precinct 13 in Jim Wells County that had curiously been cast in alphabetical order and just at the close of polling, with all of the people whose names appeared on the ballots being dead on election day.
And, a New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an " Oklahoma version of shag " done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.
* Brady Seals, former pianist and song writer for Little Texas
Famous early residents include: Joshua H. Bean, brother of Judge Roy Bean and the first mayor of San Diego, CA ; Orlando C. Phelps, one of the few surviving members of the Mier Expedition ; Edwin Rainwater, hero of the Texas Revolution ; Edward R. Hord, an influential early South Texas statesman ; and John L. Haynes, a native Virginian politician and writer who was an outspoken anti-secessionist and strong proponent of Mexican-American rights.
In the early 1920s he worked and organized union men in the oil fields of west Texas, where he met and recruited writer Jim Thompson, who later incorporated him into several short stories using the name " Strawlegs Martin.
Blues shouters got much of the attention, but, what writer Charles Keil dubs " the postwar Texas clean-up movement in blues ," was also beginning to have an influence driven by Blues artists such as T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn and Charles Brown.
** Charles R. Townsend ( notes writer ) for For the Last Time performed by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Among other historical characters, the novel features " Texian " President Sam Houston, as an exile after a political coup in Texas, a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley ( as a Luddite ), John Keats as a kinotropist ( an operator of mechanical pixelated screens ), and Benjamin Disraeli as a publicist and tabloid writer.
Mark Whittington, a writer from Texas, clearly recalled hearing the news of the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and explains his flashbulb memory as " shocking.
Martha Kay Renfroe ( born 1938 in Amarillo, Texas ) is an Oregon writer, author of mystery and science fiction under the penname M. K.
It begins: " At 1: 45 pm Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer.
Another song writer Lester D. Thornton known as Lester D ./ Texassongwriter ( Colors ) comes from Cushing, Texas north west of Nacogdoches the town that produced Bob Luman back in the 50's.
Magazine writer / editor Daniel Okrent is credited with inventing the pastime, coming up with the idea on a flight to Texas.
* The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin's papers " represent his transition from a poet to writer of novels, short stories, and screenplays.
The issue included the writer Christopher Hitchens's final interview, conducted by Dawkins in Texas, and pieces by Bill Gates, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Philip Pullman.
He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, fantasy writer Caroline L. Spector.
McCullers worked in menial jobs and studied creative writing under the Texas writer Dorothy Scarborough at night classes at Columbia University, and with Sylvia Chatfield Bates at Washington Square College of New York University.
* 4 for Texas ( 1963 ) ( director, writer, producer )
* Kris Kristofferson ( Musician, actor, song writer, Brownsville, Texas )
The Texas writer A. C. Greene proposed that West Texas extends west of the Brazos River.

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