20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. The Filming Locations Are Totally Different These Days
The site where the murderous Sawyer family’s house once stood is
now a business and residential development. The original house wasn’t simply
razed to the ground, however, but dismantled and moved some 80 miles northwest where
it was reconstructed in the small town of Kingsland and now acts as a quaint
restaurant called the Grand Central Café.
Don’t worry though: there’s no human flesh on the menu unless the Steak Oscar actually contains parts of a man named Oscar, that is.
The rural gas station the teens stop by on the way to their deaths early on in the film is still in the same location in the town of Bastrop but is now something of a horror fan mecca featuring cabins, a campground, a horror merch store and a BBQ restaurant. You might want to check where the meat came from before ordering though.