The Texas Chain Saw Massacre story
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the hitchhiker, the proprietor, and Leatherface. The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate; although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.
9 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if a killer was after me | choice | Especially Sally spent most of the story being chased by one or the other of the cannibals |
| what if I fell into the clutches of a homicidal maniac | choice | Especially Sally spent much of the story more or less at the mercy of a family of deranged cannibals |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Kirk and Pam |
| brother and sister | major | Franklin and Sally |
| cannibalism | major | The story portrayed a family of man-eating men. |
| serial murder | major | A cannibal family had killed untold unsuspecting travelers and now set about doing the same to the main characters as they fell into the cannibals' hands. |
| be wary of strangers | minor | the younglings picked up a hitch-hiker and one of them got slashed with a razor for the trouble |
| helping a stranger in need | minor | the younglings debated whether to pick up a hitch-hiker and ill-advisedly landed in favor of doing so |
| mobility impairment | minor | Franklin struggled with his wheelchair from time to time |