9 Horror Movies That Made Actors QUIT Forever

Tobe Hooper's original cult classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, lit the touch paper on a legend that is still haunting the backwoods of the American South today: Leatherface.

In the film, a group of teenagers travelling to visit the grave of one of their grandparents fall victim to a weird and wacky family of cannibals, of whom the human-skin-masked Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) is their strangest member. Playing young, hip Pam in this ensemble, Teri McMinn is best known for the iconic scene in which she's carried through the farmhouse screaming and strung up on a meat hook by the big man himself.

Filming with a tiny budget and an in complete script meant McMinn and the rest of the cast had a harrowing time on set. Their budget didn't allow for any of the amenities modern actors might enjoy, and the shoot began filming inside a van for four days straight. Once they were out of the van and in the house, McMinn then had to spend 10-hour days being caught and thrown around by 300lb Hansen, leaving her bruised, battered and barely coherent.

Such was her ordeal, she moved into stage acting, and the only thing she's had to do with film in the subsequent decades are two B-movie cameos.