Incredible Horror Movie Facts - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974 – Directed by Tobe Hooper)

The house from the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was moved from its original location in Round Rock, Texas to Kingsland, Texas, and is now a restaurant called Grand Central Cafe. Note: Don’t order the barbeque!

The film struggled to find a distributor and eventually was picked up by Bryanston Distributing Company which was a mafia-run organization headed by Louis “Butchie” Peraino of the Colombo Crime Family. As a result the cast and crew of the film were financially ripped off. Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) has said that his first royalty check, 9 months after the very successful release of the film, was for $47 and 7 cents.

         “Butchie” lied to the film’s producers about the film’s profits and when Robert Kuhn (investor and attorney for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) confronted him (and his mafia henchmen) he threated to sue him. “Butchie” told him, “You don’t have enough balls to sue me.” Eventually the rights were returned to the filmmakers after “Butchie” was arrested on obscenity charges for his involvement with the film Deep Throat (1972).

The film was banned for many years in the UK but was finally released after James Ferman retired from the British Board of Film Classification in 1999. Ferman was notorious in Britain for banning and cutting movies, leading to the introduction of the Video Recordings Act 1984.

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