Movie Research

Pretty much anything that you read, watch or stare at frequently is going to have research to back it up.

For me i think it was probably , "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning " that set it off the edge. After having seen the original- i decided to do a little research on what the movie was based on.

"Hooper has also said that he based the character of Leatherface on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin farmer who robbed graves (his own mother's supposedly among them), allegedly engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism, and murdered at least two women in the 1950s (one of whose corpses was found hanging naked — decapitated and disembowelled — in Gein's residence). As Gunnar Hansen, the actor who portrayed Leatherface, notes in his Texas Chainsaw Massacre FAQ:"

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So after i found out a little bit about Ed Gein i realized that the whole story was completely fictional- its claimed "Inspired by a true story" bit was a load. But in hindesight if i were to watch the 2004 version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre I would probably just have to assume that it is based on research- of the original movie. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a whole different story- and while it was based on the movie which was based on a movie which was based on a serial necrophiliac, it definately implied some new gore techniques in the special fx industry.

Pretty much any movie is going to have to have some research done behind it- whether it is special effects or actual background research- i think either way, researching the research of a researched movie is something that we can all enjoy. In the end you really get a true feeling of what it was like to be making a movie- going from a necrophile farmer to a family of cannibals in one foul swift movement.