(2003)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-Based On A True Story

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Summary: A group of young adults are on their way to a Lynard Skynard concert in Dallas. They cross through a small, isolated town called Travis County. They pick up a disturbed woman who then shoots herself with a gun. Looking for the local authorities, the group travels through the town, meeting the locals. One by one, they are picked off by a strange man with a demented face. Realising that they are in mortal danger, they must escape from the town from a family of cannibals and a chainsaw-wielding madman.

Review: For starters, this is improperly titled, stating that the Texas Chainsaw Franchise is based on a true story, where in all reality it's based on true events that occurred in history. What's the difference, a true story usually has the same story, but maybe altered a little bit for the audience or to keep people's true identities hidden for unknown reasons. However, based on true events means they could have taken 20 different times in history and pieced them together, which is usually what happens, and a lot of the time, true events get distorted, kinda like how rumors spread around high-school. Anyways, we all know the character 'Leatherface' the chainsaw crazed mad-thing that creates body suits and masks out of human flesh is well, a psychopath. But this is the character that's based off of true events, actually a person, a Wisconsin Serial Killer who goes by the name of Ed Gein. Gein did wear human skin actually paraded around in it on full moon nights and danced in the rain in his homemade body suits, and actually made up furniture out of human flesh and bodes such as lamps, chairs, and even made belts using women's breasts and clitoruses, but he acted alone and did not use a chainsaw. Some goofs in the movie are in one of the opening scenes where it shows our doomed victims, they're listening to the song 'Sweet Home Alabama' which came out in 1974, and the movie claims to take place in 1973. Filming of the first movie was from July 15, 1973 to August 14, 1973, while the opening narrative of the search of Leatherface's home, which claims to be factual, states that the events took place on August 18, 1973. Great movie, gore, which we all love. But enough of saying that movies are true when it just ain't. It may cause your ratings to rise, but eventually people research the truth, and you can find anything on today's world-wide-web...