In 1974 director Tobe Hooper gave the horror genre a shot in the arm with his low budget independently produced film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Hooper loosely based his film on the real life cannibal Ed Gein, Hooper also said that the inspiration for the film came to him as he tried to think of a quick way to exit a crowded hardware store. Hooper’s realistic and shocking depictions of violence caused the film to be banned in the United Kingdom and Australia for over a decade. Texas Chainsaw Massacre changed the horror movie industry and gave birth to the genre of the Teenager Slasher Flick. What Norman Bates began in Psycho,
Leatherface and his chainsaw picked up and became perhaps more iconic an image to American horror than a lone woman screaming in the shower. Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Chucky, and countless forgettable characters owe their existence to this classic.
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