10 Horror Movie Props You Didn't Know Were Reused

5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake's Newspaper Was Used In No Country For Old Men

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Marcus Nispel's impressive 2003 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Coen Brothers' stunning 2007 No Country for Old Men both feature one of the most famous, busiest props in Hollywood.

While one of the many victims of the Texas Chainsaw redo was seen covered in a newspaper, that exact same print layout can be seen on the newspaper being read by Tommy Lee Jones' Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men.

Given how trivial the use of a newspaper usually is in a movie or TV show, this is a minute detail that tends to pass us by. But not only does this page setup feature in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and No Country for Old Men, for it has been featured in a whole slew of plentiful projects.

This same newspaper layout and content appears in Back to the Future, A Murder of Crows, 10 Things I Hate About You, Casper, Angel, Married... with Children, Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, That '70s Show, Modern Family and so many, many more.

Of course, it's not the same physical newspaper used in all of this. Instead, the reused 'prop' is the layout and art file that has appeared from film to film, TV show to TV show.

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