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Here's what Leatherface's original killing mask looks like today from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

Massacre of the Universe

The Goon | TCM Art by Eric Powell

Draft papers in the glove box. Wrong turn on the map. Dinner plans you didn’t make. Happy 20th to the prequel that showed how the Hewitts got started in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).

Name a movie title and add "Massacre".

Get tf outta here!

Leatherface | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Art by Jeff Zornow

Filmed around Round Rock, Bastrop, Leander, and Watterson. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre premiered in Austin on October 1, 1974 and it's still the loudest thing the Lone Star State ever put on film.

Big John and Little John are the biggest weight fraud I've ever seen on display.

You’ve SAW the originals, the remakes, the 3D, the prequels… which movie still makes you check the locks?

Are you gonna watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre tonight?

They said it was too raw. Too cheap. Too nasty. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) made tens of millions, and became one of the most profitable indie horror films ever. Suck on that, Hollywood.

Yearbook said “most likely to succeed.” They just didn’t specify the method for Leatherface.

Franklin vs. the Porch No score swell, no cheap cut. Just a guy realizin' his friends would rather explore and have fun, than help him. Which Franklin then responds aggressively by mimickin' the Hitchhiker, they encountered earlier in the van. The raspberries. The muttered curses. The way the laughter upstairs just keeps goin'. That’s not comic relief, it's a character bein' dismantled in front of you. That’s when The Texas Chain Saw Massacre stopped from bein' a slasher and cuts much deeper. Essential cinema!

Behold, the Saw of Excalibur! Forged in the fires of a Texas summer, tempered by a Home Depot clearance aisle, and pulled by the only man who never asked permission.

Leatherface Toolshed | TCM Art by Bryan Baugh

Happy first day of Fall, y'all.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Original Motion Picture Score Deluxe Vinyl LP by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell, released by Waxwork Records.

The Dance That Almost Happened Too Soon Director Tobe Hooper, originally wanted Leatherface to stop at the gas station, twirl the chainsaw, and “just get crazy” after chasin' Sally there. Gunnar Hansen did it, but Hooper cut the scene so the audience wouldn’t know Leatherface was part of the family yet, and so that open doorway stayed terrifyin'. However, Hooper then told Hansen to do it again for the real end scene. After Sally escapes, Hooper just wanted frustrated foot stomps and chainsaw gestures. Hansen turned it into the wild spinnin' dance we all know. He later said swingin' that saw so close to the camera was his last chance to kill the director after the brutal shoot. Cut from the middle. Born at the end. Still one of the most iconic images in horror.

Like and Cher.