Q 01/05

Who directed the original 1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

A) Tobe Hooper

B) Wes Craven

C) John Carpenter

D) George A. Romero

Answer · why

A) Tobe Hooper

Tobe Hooper. His art film Eggshells had found no distributor, so after seeing students line up for Night of the Living Dead he bet on cheap horror as ...

Q 02/05

Roughly how much did The Texas Chain Saw Massacre cost to make in 1973?

A) About $14,000

B) About $140,000

C) About $1.4 million

D) About $14 million

Answer · why

B) About $140,000

About $140,000. It went on to take more than $30 million in North America, yet the cast and crew saw almost none of it: their distributor underpaid th...

Q 03/05

Which real-life Wisconsin killer partly inspired Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

A) John Wayne Gacy

B) Ted Bundy

C) Ed Gein

D) Jeffrey Dahmer

Answer · why

C) Ed Gein

Ed Gein. He wore skin cut from corpses, which gave Leatherface his masks; one of the writers said he also drew on a Houston serial-murder case that wa...

Q 04/05

Which actor played Leatherface in 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

A) Bill Moseley

B) Gunnar Hansen

C) Edwin Neal

D) Jim Siedow

Answer · why

B) Gunnar Hansen

Gunnar Hansen. His costume went unwashed through weeks of 100-degree heat for fear of spoiling it, and by the end of the shoot, he said, no one would ...

Q 05/05

Who plays final girl Sally Hardesty in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)?

A) Marilyn Burns

B) Teri McMinn

C) Caroline Williams

D) Olwen Fouéré

Answer · why

A) Marilyn Burns

Marilyn Burns. A University of Texas drama student, she took so many knocks during the shoot that her screams were real by the end, and her costume ha...