

Its plot concerns a family of cannibals living in rural Texas, who abduct customers from their gas station. It is considered to be the first of the 1970s slasher films, and originated a great many of the clichés seen in countless later low-budget slashers. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, released in 1974, written and directed by Tobe Hooper, was the first and most successful entry in the series. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre story chronology Gains, Kim Henkel, Ian Henkel, and Pat Cassidy Mike Fleiss, Kim Henkel, Tobe Hooper, Brad Fuller, and Andrew FormĪdam Marcus, Debra Sullivan, and Kristen EllisĬhrista Campbell, Lati Grobman, Carl Mazzocone, and Les Weldonįede Álvarez, Herbert W. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III The film series has grossed over $252 million at the worldwide box office. Hooper and Henkel were involved in three of the later films. The original film was released in 1974, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper and written by Hooper and Kim Henkel. The franchise focuses on the cannibalistic spree killer Leatherface and his family, who terrorize unsuspecting visitors to their territories in the desolate Texas countryside, typically killing and subsequently cooking them. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an American horror franchise consisting of nine slasher films, comics, and a video game adaptation of the original film.
