Episode 17 — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

As part of a new series exploring different horror franchises, Rewind of the Living Dead will spend five episodes taking a deep dive into "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as well as all of the sequels, remakes and reboots. The first episode will explore the original 1974 classic "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." The word legendary gets tossed around a lot in the horror genre but Tobe Hooper’s first major film certainly fits the bill. Initially inspired by a Christmas shopping trip where he saw a rack of chainsaws as a method he could cut through a crowd of people, Hooper ended up writing a script for a movie he wanted to make called “Head Cheese” before then changing the name to “Leatherface,” based on one of the cannibals decorating his backwoods Texas tale about a group of travelers who end up at the wrong house where they are soon cut down and butchered one by one. Shot in 115 degree heat on a shoestring budget, Hooper initially wanted to make his movie PG rated so it could be seen by a wider audience. What actually resulted was one of the most terrifying horror films of all time with critics like Roger Ebert calling it as “violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises”. On the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to find out who will survive and what will be left of them as we discuss the 1974 film “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” …  Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio For more Rewind of the Living Dead, visit our website or follow on social media:https://www.rewindofthelivingdead.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rewindofdeadFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rewindoflivingdeadInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewindoflivingdead/