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Story Summary:
By Heather Buckley
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper
Hippie kids on their way to the Hardesty household meet the Hitchiker (Edwin Neal) on the side of some hot Texas road. He shares with them the “gory” days of non-mechanized slaughterhouse kills, shoots Franklin Hardesty’s (Paul A. Partain) picture; burns it in front of him and then with the swoop of a straight razor cuts poor Franklin’s hand. The kids freak out and Hitchhiker exits the moving van, “marking” it with Frankin’s blood.
Shaken (but not stirred), the kids find the Hardesty house and start to pair off. They soon meet their fate at the hands of chainsaw-wielding, human-flesh mask wearing, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) who inhabits an old farmhouse just down the lane. The last hippie to (almost) go the way of the saw is Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns). The Cook (Jim Siedow) captures her at his gasoline and human BBQ shack and then brings her to his home, that very same farmhouse where the others had met their doom. Here she encounters the whole Sawyer clan, which includes the Hitchhiker from before, an old corpse of a man, Grandpa (John Dugan), and our hero Leatherface, wearing a skin mask all done up with woman’s make-up. It feels good to be pretty.
After some taunting and torture at the dinner table, Sally escapes to the highway with Leatherface and The Hitchhiker in hot pursuit. The Hitchhiker dies, smacked by a semi (look both ways kids). A truck driver stops and picks up the screaming girl from the mere clutches of death. The film ends with Sally riding away; laughing hysterically, while Leatherface twirls his chainsaw in a distance.
This figure was released as part of the third wave of Mezco Toyz' Cinema Of Fear action figure collection. |
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Source:The Texas Chansaw Massacre
Year: 2008
Retail: $15.99
Accessories:
Sack
Camera
Pocketknife
Straight Razor
Fun Facts:
In Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, it has been speculated that Chop Top’s puppet, Nubbins, is in fact, the corpse of the Hitchhiker
Museum of Modern Art in NYC added the film to its permanent collection. Take that Friday the 13th.
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