20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
15. It Was Christmas Shopping, Strangely Enough, That Inspired Tobe Hooper To Make The Movie
Funnily enough, the lightbulb moment for The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre came to Hooper while he was out shopping during the Christmas rush in
late 1972 at a department store when he happened upon a rack of chainsaws while
strolling around the hardware section.
Growing increasingly frustrated by the overzealous Christmas shoppers around him, Hooper said to himself “I know a way I could get through this crowd really quickly”. That is, presumably, by mowing the mindless consumer horde down with a chainsaw or two.
Mind, we’ve all thought similarly violent things when out battling the Christmas crowds right?