Texas Chain Saw Massacre Approved

Finally, a staggering 25 years after its initial birth into the horror genre, "the purest of all horror films" - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - has been granted an 18 certificate by the BBFC with absolutely no cuts. Tobe Hooper's creation spawned a generation of bloodthirsty films, and his Texas Chain Saw... character 'Leatherface' was actually based on the real-life mass-murderer, Ed Gein. A resident of Plainfield, Wisconsin in the US, when his mother died, a lonely Gein robbed graves using the corpses for company. He would dress up in their skin and hold conversations between himself and his dead mother. When he murdered, he gutted his victims and strung them up like deer. Thankfully, Gein died in a maximum security asylum in 1984. When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was being shot, Marilyn Burns, who played Sally Hardesty, suffered actual injuries when her character was being chased by Leatherface through undergrowth. Burns' clothes were ripped and torn in the dense growth and the blood that subsequently appeared on her clothes was, in fact, very much her own and real.