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Hooper and Kim Henkel cowrote the screenplay and formed Vortex, Inc. [18] with Henkel as president and Hooper as vice president. [19] They asked Bill Parsley, a friend of Hooper, to provide funding. Parsley formed a company named MAB, Inc. through which he invested $60,000 in the production.
Oct 23, 2023 · Exceeding the original $60,000 budget up to egregious ranges from $93,000 to $300,000, a film production group called Pie in the Sky provided $23,500 for 19% of Vortex. The Texas Film Commission secured distribution with the Bryanston Distributing Company, who took $225,000 and 35% of the profits.
Hooper and Kim Henkel cowrote the screenplay and formed Vortex, Inc. with Henkel as president and Hooper as vice president. They asked Bill Parsley, a friend of Hooper, to provide funding. Parsley formed a company named MAB, Inc. through which he invested $60,000 in the production.
6 days ago · Hooper and Henkel struggled to find investors to help finance the film. In 1973 Warren Eduard Skaaren , head of the Texas Film Commission , met with potential backers to discuss the project. He played a major role in securing $60,000 in initial funding, $40,000 of which came from Texas Tech University Vice President Bill Parsley.
- IT WAS INSPIRED BY A CHRISTMAS SHOPPING CROWD. The inspirations for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are surprisingly diverse, ranging from director and co-writer Tobe Hooper’s attempt to make a modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel to real-life Wisconsin murderer and corpse defiler Ed Gein.
- LEATHERFACE IS ALLEGEDLY BASED ON A REAL PERSON HOOPER KNEW. Leatherface, the chainsaw-wielding maniac who would go down in history as one of horror cinema’s greatest villains, shows obvious Ed Gein influence thanks to his mask crafted from human skin, but Gein was not the character’s only precursor.
- THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL TITLE. After inspiration struck, Hooper and co-writer Kim Henkel hammered out a script over several weeks and gave it the eerie title Head Cheese (named for the scene in which the hitchhiker details the process of how that particular pork product is made).
- IT IS NOT A TRUE STORY. Though the real crimes of Ed Gein did influence Hooper and Henkel in their writing, the idea that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is itself based on a true story is something that grew out of the marketing of the film.
Dec 6, 2019 · The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had a budget of $140,000, so many of the cast members decided to take shares in the film instead of a salary. These shares were part of Vortex, which was Hooper and Henkel's production company, but Vortex only owned half of the film.
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In 1973 a ragtag group of Texans scrounged up $60,000 and created a film so violent and visionary that it shocked the world. But if you thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was strange, then you...
