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* HellIsThatNoise: The flashbulb of a camera never sounded so horrifying.
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* ButtMonkey: Poor Franklin just can’t catch a break, besides being in a wheelchair he also rolls down a hill while trying to pee, then he gets his arm sliced by the hitchhiker’s straight razor, then he is taunted by his friends about the hitchhiker coming to get him, he also gets stuck while trying to move around the house and finally [[spoiler: he is sliced and diced while stuck in his chair and becomes the only person killed by Chainsaw in the movie]].
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* WrenchWhack: A truck driver throws a wrench at Leatherface which knocks him down and makes him cut himself his chainsaw.
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* ChainsawGoodChainsawGood: Leatherface's weapon of choice, which he uses in the [[ChaseScene chase scenes]] and cutting up the captured meat. However, he actually has a higher bodycount with the sledgehammer.
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: The Hitchhiker talks about how the sledgehammer is a better method of killing the animals in the slaughterhouse. The first member of the group to die gets killed with a sledgehammer and it is ''not'' pretty.
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* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeathGoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath: A title so striking that [[FollowTheLeader it became popular]] to add the word "massacre" to other horror movies.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sally is helped by the driver of an 18 wheeler who leaves his vehicle behind, smacks Leatherface with a wrench, and runs down the road, never to be seen again.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sally makes it out alive and the killers will probably be caught, but everyone else is dead and there's no way she'll be mentally well after all she's been through.]]
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* NoNameGiven / OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of the murderers are just listed as "Hitchhiker" and "Old Man" in the credits, and as for the third, "Leatherface" is obviously not his real name. The sequel established that their names are Nubbins, Drayton, and Bubba.
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* NoNameGiven / OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of the murderers are just listed as "Hitchhiker" and "Old Man" in the credits, and as for the third, "Leatherface" is obviously not his real name. The sequel established that their names are Nubbins, Drayton, and Bubba.Bubba, respectively.
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!!! "The Texas Trope Chainsaw Massacre":
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* CannibalLarder: Probably the TropeCodifier.
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* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Averted, compared to later slasher films. The movie has a much smaller bodycount than modern audiences are used to.
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Hooper initially took his inspiration for the film from the real-life serial killer Ed Gein (who was also the inspiration for ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s Norman Bates, and later for Buffalo Bill of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') and based the character Leatherface on him.
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Hooper initially took his inspiration for the film from the real-life serial killer Ed Gein (who was also the inspiration for ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s Norman Bates, and later for Buffalo Bill of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') and based the character Leatherface on him.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The opening narration is voiced by John Larroquette (of ''Series/NightCourt'', ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow'', and ''Series/BostonLegal'' fame). He did the opening narration of the remake as well.
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* BuryYourDisabled: The wheelchair-bound Franklin gets a chainsaw into his guts.
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* BuryYourDisabled: The wheelchair-bound Franklin gets a chainsaw into his guts.
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* SanitySlippage: Happened ''for real'' while filming the infamous dinner scene. The food rotted under the filming lights, and created a horrific smell, combined with the one scene filmed for 27 straight hours in 110 degree weather that it actually drove the actors a bit nuts; the DVD commentary has Gunnar Hansen eerily recounting how he genuinely wanted to kill Marilyn Burns for a few seconds after being ordered to by his "brother." Vietnam veteran Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker) even describes it as worse than anything he went through during the war.
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* AxeBeforeEntering: Leatherface cuts his way through a door to get Sally. [[BlackComedy His ''own'' door]].
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''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a seminal slasher film by TobeHooper, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory based on the "true" story]] about [[DeadlyRoadTrip a group of teenagers traveling]] through rural Texas, who happen upon a secluded old house inhabited by the world's most horrifying family -- in particular a disturbed young man with an interest in leather masks and amateur butchery. The film was released in 1974.
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''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a seminal slasher film by TobeHooper, Creator/TobeHooper, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory based on the "true" story]] about [[DeadlyRoadTrip a group of teenagers traveling]] through rural Texas, who happen upon a secluded old house inhabited by the world's most horrifying family -- in particular a disturbed young man with an interest in leather masks and amateur butchery. The film was released in 1974.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story is actually an amalgamation of three different elements. The famed necrophile/not-quite-SerialKiller Ed Gein, the legendary Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his clan (who probably never really existed) and Tobe Hooper's fantasies of mowing down shoppers at K-Mart with a chainsaw while he was trapped in the hardware department by the crush of the holiday crowds.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story is actually an amalgamation of three different elements. The famed necrophile/not-quite-SerialKiller Ed Gein, the legendary Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his clan (who probably never really existed) and Tobe Hooper's Creator/TobeHooper's fantasies of mowing down shoppers at K-Mart with a chainsaw while he was trapped in the hardware department by the crush of the holiday crowds.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The opening narration is voiced by John Larroquette (of ''Series/NightCourt'', ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow'', and ''Series/BostonLegal'' fame). He did the opening narration of the remake as well.
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* BadSamaritan: When it seems that Sally has made it into safety from Leatherface in the gas station, its owner [[BoundAndGagged captures her]] and brings her to his family's house.
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* BadSamaritan: When it seems that Sally has made it into safety from Leatherface in the gas station, its owner [[BoundAndGagged captures her]] bounds and gags her]], [[BagOfKidnapping stuffs her in a bag]] and brings her to his family's house.
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The film was produced on a budget of $140,000, and Hooper cast mainly unknown actors from the local Texan population. When it was completed, Hooper struggled to find a distributor, due to the graphic depictions of violence (although the film is not ''nearly'' as bloody as its reputation suggests.) The movie was ultimately rated R, instead of the PG rating Hooper had intended.
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The film was produced on a budget of $140,000, and Hooper cast mainly unknown actors from the local Texan population. When it was completed, Hooper struggled to find a distributor, due to the graphic depictions of violence (although the film is not ''nearly'' as bloody as its reputation suggests.) The movie was ultimately rated R, instead of the PG rating Hooper had intended.
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Despite the controversy it caused, the film was a success and spawned [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre a franchise]].
Despite the controversy it caused, the film was a success and spawned [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre a franchise]].
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''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a seminal slasher film by TobeHooper, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory based on the "true" story]] about [[DeadlyRoadTrip a group of teenagers traveling]] through rural Texas, who happen upon a secluded old house inhabited by the world's most horrifying family -- in particular a disturbed young man with an interest in leather masks and amateur butchery. The film was released in 1974.
Hooper initially took his inspiration for the film from the real-life serial killer Ed Gein (who was also the inspiration for ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s Norman Bates, and later for Buffalo Bill of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') and based the character Leatherface on him.
The film was produced on a budget of $140,000, and Hooper cast mainly unknown actors from the local Texan population. When it was completed, Hooper struggled to find a distributor, due to the graphic depictions of violence (although the film is not ''nearly'' as bloody as its reputation suggests.) The movie was ultimately rated R, instead of the PG rating Hooper had intended.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AxeBeforeEntering: Leatherface cuts his way through a door to get Sally.
* BadSamaritan: When it seems that Sally has made it into safety from Leatherface in the gas station, its owner [[BoundAndGagged captures her]] and brings her to his family's house.
* BloodlessCarnage: For the most part, exceptions being the harm done to hands.
* BuryYourDisabled: The wheelchair-bound Franklin gets a chainsaw into his guts.
* CarFu: Nubbins gets SquashedFlat by a truck.
* ChainsawGood
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Played as straight as possible, as three of the protagonists meet their end by wandering into the maniacs' house.
* DropTheHammer: Leatherface bashes Kirk's and Jerry's heads in with a sledgehammer.
** Later, Grandpa tries to kill Sally with a hammer.
* EvilLaugh: An entire sequence in the film just has the family laughing maniacally at the bound Sally's expense.
* {{Fainting}}: Sally faints when she sees Grandpa sucking blood from her fingertip.
* {{Fingore}}: The finger slicing scene, which was actually done for real, after the blood pumping machine broke.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* GoryDiscretionShot: Purposefully invoked when Pam is hung on the meathook. Hooper was seeking to cut down violent content to try to get a better rating, so he opted not to show the impalement. Instead, he established her wearing a shirt with no back, emphasized the hook and showed splatters of blood in the room. As he said, "The mind fills in the gaps for you." Other scenes in the film, such as Franklin's murder, make use of this as well.
* GraveRobbing: Hitchhiker's hobbies include unearthing corpses and making grisly art, trinkets and furniture from them.
* LaughingMad: Sally at the end when she makes her escape.
* SanitySlippage: Happened ''for real'' while filming the infamous dinner scene. The food rotted under the filming lights, and created a horrific smell, combined with the one scene filmed for 27 straight hours in 110 degree weather that it actually drove the actors a bit nuts; the DVD commentary has Gunnar Hansen eerily recounting how he genuinely wanted to kill Marilyn Burns for a few seconds after being ordered to by his "brother." Vietnam veteran Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker) even describes it as worse than anything he went through during the war.
* ScreamingWoman: Sally spends the the final third of the film screaming her head off.
* SlasherSmile: Leatherface pulls these of few times. It's little hard to see thanks to the mask but if you look closely when he licks his teeth, you can see that he smirks while doing it.
* SpidersAreScary: Kirk notices a cluster of Daddy Long-Legs' in a corner of a room, and is spooked.
* SuperWindowJump: Sally escapes the maniac's house twice by jumping throug a window.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story is actually an amalgamation of three different elements. The famed necrophile/not-quite-SerialKiller Ed Gein, the legendary Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his clan (who probably never really existed) and Tobe Hooper's fantasies of mowing down shoppers at K-Mart with a chainsaw while he was trapped in the hardware department by the crush of the holiday crowds.
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Hooper initially took his inspiration for the film from the real-life serial killer Ed Gein (who was also the inspiration for ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s Norman Bates, and later for Buffalo Bill of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'') and based the character Leatherface on him.
The film was produced on a budget of $140,000, and Hooper cast mainly unknown actors from the local Texan population. When it was completed, Hooper struggled to find a distributor, due to the graphic depictions of violence (although the film is not ''nearly'' as bloody as its reputation suggests.) The movie was ultimately rated R, instead of the PG rating Hooper had intended.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AxeBeforeEntering: Leatherface cuts his way through a door to get Sally.
* BadSamaritan: When it seems that Sally has made it into safety from Leatherface in the gas station, its owner [[BoundAndGagged captures her]] and brings her to his family's house.
* BloodlessCarnage: For the most part, exceptions being the harm done to hands.
* BuryYourDisabled: The wheelchair-bound Franklin gets a chainsaw into his guts.
* CarFu: Nubbins gets SquashedFlat by a truck.
* ChainsawGood
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Played as straight as possible, as three of the protagonists meet their end by wandering into the maniacs' house.
* DropTheHammer: Leatherface bashes Kirk's and Jerry's heads in with a sledgehammer.
** Later, Grandpa tries to kill Sally with a hammer.
* EvilLaugh: An entire sequence in the film just has the family laughing maniacally at the bound Sally's expense.
* {{Fainting}}: Sally faints when she sees Grandpa sucking blood from her fingertip.
* {{Fingore}}: The finger slicing scene, which was actually done for real, after the blood pumping machine broke.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* GoryDiscretionShot: Purposefully invoked when Pam is hung on the meathook. Hooper was seeking to cut down violent content to try to get a better rating, so he opted not to show the impalement. Instead, he established her wearing a shirt with no back, emphasized the hook and showed splatters of blood in the room. As he said, "The mind fills in the gaps for you." Other scenes in the film, such as Franklin's murder, make use of this as well.
* GraveRobbing: Hitchhiker's hobbies include unearthing corpses and making grisly art, trinkets and furniture from them.
* LaughingMad: Sally at the end when she makes her escape.
* SanitySlippage: Happened ''for real'' while filming the infamous dinner scene. The food rotted under the filming lights, and created a horrific smell, combined with the one scene filmed for 27 straight hours in 110 degree weather that it actually drove the actors a bit nuts; the DVD commentary has Gunnar Hansen eerily recounting how he genuinely wanted to kill Marilyn Burns for a few seconds after being ordered to by his "brother." Vietnam veteran Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker) even describes it as worse than anything he went through during the war.
* ScreamingWoman: Sally spends the the final third of the film screaming her head off.
* SlasherSmile: Leatherface pulls these of few times. It's little hard to see thanks to the mask but if you look closely when he licks his teeth, you can see that he smirks while doing it.
* SpidersAreScary: Kirk notices a cluster of Daddy Long-Legs' in a corner of a room, and is spooked.
* SuperWindowJump: Sally escapes the maniac's house twice by jumping throug a window.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: This story is actually an amalgamation of three different elements. The famed necrophile/not-quite-SerialKiller Ed Gein, the legendary Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean and his clan (who probably never really existed) and Tobe Hooper's fantasies of mowing down shoppers at K-Mart with a chainsaw while he was trapped in the hardware department by the crush of the holiday crowds.
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