![]() Hooper went to great lengths to authenticate Massacre. Not real real bad, but enough to make him jump. It ripped through the steak and down to the steel plate that heated to up to maybe 150 degrees because of the friction. So the clutch goes back in and a piece of metal goes on his leg and underneath there's meat wrapped in plastic with a lot of stage blood inside it. It has to go through Leatherface's pants when he falls at the end of the film. That made it safe for running with it.īut when it came to a shot where we had to cut something with the saw, we had to put the clutch back in and the chain with teeth back on. So the film only reads that it's spinning. If you rev the engine, the chain without that piece would naturally vibrate around in a circle. Then we took the clutch out of the saw itself to see what would happen. So we got another chain for the saw and took all of the teeth off it. We were a bit cavalier about being careful with it. Leatherface fell with it a couple of times. That thing could've been damaged, stolen, ruined. Of course production-wise, that's almost unheard of. One of the investors in the movie happened to have an old saw in his garage. It came really quickly - the whole configuration of the characters - and the loop, the way the story loops inside itself. So the idea came to me in the car of how to pull all of these elements together. Politically, the times were interesting they were kind of amplified. And I was hearing a lot of lies on television. ![]() People had to queue up in their automobiles at gas stations, sometimes for miles. We were going through a gasoline shortage in the country at the time. I’d been working on this idea of young people, college students, in isolation. Obviously I didn’t do that at the time.īut driving home I was thinking about it. They would get out of my way.” That birthed the idea of the chain saw. ![]() I said, “If I start the saw, those people would just part. I looked down and there was a rack of chain saws in front of me for sale. I was in a department store around the holidays, thinking, "I just can’t wait to get out of this department store." There were thousands of people in there, and I was weaving through them to get out, and I found myself in the hardware department.
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