![]() I’ve always wanted to travel across America. ![]() So big, there’s just no containing it within the puny boundaries of a single set of punctuationary bookends.Jay review road trip 3 Comments 204 views I’m not often driven to introspection or reflection, but the question does come up sometimes. After watching the movie, though, I have to say I’ve got a lot of questions that need answering. When I first heard about this I was eye-rollingly amused, wondering just what sort of backstory this guy needed (since this movie, and Psycho, were loosely based on the not-technically-serial-killer-but-still-objectively-awful Ed Gein, we can start with that). and I had been in Vietnam, with people trying to kill me, so I guess that shows how bad it was.”” – From IMDBĪpparently there is a new prequel piece in the works, an origin story for Leatherface. Edwin Neal who played the hitch-hiker claimed: “Filming that scene was the worst time of my life. Everyone later recalled that the stench from the rotting food and people’s body odor was so terrible that some crew members passed out or became sick from the smell. This entire process took about 36 hours (five of which which took to put the makeup on), during a brutal summer heat wave where the average temperature was over 100 degrees, with a large portion of it spent filming the dinner scene, with him wearing a heavy suit and necktie, sitting in a room filled with dead animals and rotting food with no air conditioning or electric fans. “After getting into the old-age makeup, John Dugan decided that he did not ever want to go through the process again, meaning that all the scenes with him had to be filmed in the same session before he could take the makeup off. Apparently the actor went full method with it, so his fellow actors thought he was a right penis. I liked the Franklin character, who started out sort of creepy and unsympathetic and then turned into some kind of voice of reason for the movie. Great stuff.Ī lot of the performances were, if massively over the top, actually pretty good. The bunch of kids driving out to a secluded cabin (in the woods, indeed), and all the rest. Lots of horror movie tropes in this one, which is fair since this is the one they all came from. I confess to ignorance, never having really seen much of his stuff (I hadn’t seen this before either, and I haven’t seen any of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre sequels and remakes), but this was definitely a nice build up to a shockingly abrupt and violent series of gory murders (that first appearance of Leatherface with the hammer, bwaaahahaha) and suitably horrible creepy-redneck cannibal family antics. Hooper creates – or so I’m told – great atmospheric and slow-build stories, particularly in his horror. Fahrenheit we were the only four people in the theatre who weren’t enjoying the movie ironically, but that might be uncharitable of him to say. The reboot-reboot?Īnyway, this is a true classic and highly enjoyable. My main take-away was that the crazy hitchhiker character looked suspiciously like James Franco. And check out the stuff about the mafia front that acted as original film distributor. The IMDB page linked above, and the Wikipedia page here, have a lot of fun info about the movie.įor example, John Larroquette (of Boston Legal fame, among many many other things) claimed that his payment for narrating the movie was a marijuana joint. This was really fun and – considering its age – an excellent film, very much a classic of the cinema and the genre and … okay, it was cheesy and hammily-acted at best and generally old-movie-looking, but it has held up really well. We practically cosplayed as the Sawyer family.
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