Movies: Based On True Events & Its True Source

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Originally Posted by gamma626

Also the Texas Chainsaw was based on a true event... Right?
Frost/Nixon was, I know that.

Nope.
According to Tobe Hooper, the idea for featuring a chainsaw in a horror film came to him while in the hardware section of a crowded store as he contemplated a way to get out quickly through the crowd. The film concept arose in the early 1970s while he worked as a college professor at the University of Austin and as a documentary cameraman. He had previously developed the idea of a film centering on isolation, the woods, and darkness;, and was still percolating the idea of being isolated when he thought up the concept of the film. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was based loosely on the murders committed by 1950s Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, who served as the inspiration for a number of other horror films, including Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs.