In the summer of 1973 a team of recent college graduates led by the Director and producing team of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel headed out to rural Texas to shoot a horror picture then titled ‘Leather Face’.
Hooper and Henkel had made the low budget Avantgarde flick ‘Eggshells’ after graduating from the University of Texas film programme and that festival film had earned Hooper the title of an up and coming talent in Austin Texas. Realising that art movies weren’t going to get them a career in Hollywood Hooper and Henkel set out to write a genre movie that would hopefully be more mainstream and saleable in the independent film markets. What they didn’t realise at the time is that they were making a horror movie that would go on to be, not only well received, but become a byword amongst horror fans and become one of the most influential horror film of the century. Oil up your power tools and keep the exits in mind as we take a look at the impact and legacy on Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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