Editing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Chain Saw Massacre House3.jpg|thumb|left|The farmhouse used for ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' was moved from [[La Frontera (Round Rock, Texas)|La Frontera]] to [[Kingsland, Texas]], and restored as a restaurant.<ref name="KillingFields">{{cite news|title=The Killing Fields: A culinary history of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' farmhouse |first=MM |last=Pack |newspaper=[[The Austin Chronicle]] |date=October 23, 2003 |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2003-10-31/184100/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629192458/http://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2003-10-31/184100/ |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]
The primary filming location was an early 1900s farmhouse located on Quick Hill Road near [[Round Rock, Texas]], where the [[La Frontera (Round Rock, Texas)|La Frontera]] development is now located.<ref name="KillingFields"/> The crew filmed seven days a week, up to 16 hours a day. The environment was hot<ref name="Hansen"/><ref>{{cite news |author=Staff |title=The calm, peaceful life of Leatherface |url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/10/film.leatherface.ap/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040611042642/http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/10/film.leatherface.ap/index.html |date=June 10, 2004 |archive-date=June 11, 2004 |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=July 26, 2009}}</ref> and the cast and crew found conditions tough; temperatures peaked at 110°[[Fahrenheit|F]] (43&nbsp;°C) on July 26.<ref>{{cite video |people=Hansen, Gunnar (Actor)|date=2008|title=The Texas Chain Saw Massacre audio commentary |medium=DVD |publisher= Second Sight Films |time=0:04:20  |quote=it was 110 degrees or whatever in the sun }}</ref> Hansen later recalled, "It was 95, 100 degrees every day during filming. They wouldn't wash my costume because they were worried that the laundry might lose it, or that it would change color. They didn't have enough money for a second costume. So I wore that [mask] 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, for a month."<ref>[[#Jaworzyn04|Jaworzyn 2004, p. 63]]</ref>

''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' was mainly shot using an [[Eclair (camera)|Eclair NPR]] 16mm camera<ref name="TCMDVD">{{cite video |title=The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [DVD commentary] |date=2008 |medium=DVD |publisher=Dark Sky Films |time=00:01:00–00:01:22 |people=Hooper, Tobe (Director)}}</ref><ref name="MovieGoing"/> with fine-grain, low-speed [[Ektachrome|Ektachrome Commercial]] film that required considerably more light than modern digital cameras and even most filmstocks of the day.<ref name="GadFly">{{cite web|url=http://www.gadflyonline.com/archive-texaschainsaw.html |title=Bone of My Bone, Flesh of My Flesh |last=Kraus |first=Daniel |date=October 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608082606/http://www.gadflyonline.com/archive-texaschainsaw.html |archive-date=June 8, 2011 |publisher=Gadfly |access-date=October 17, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This allowed more mobility and cost savings over shooting on the standard theatrical 35mm format of the time, without significant sacrifices to image quality. Most of the filming took place in the farmhouse, which was filled with furniture constructed from animal bones and a latex material used as upholstery to give the appearance of human skin.<ref name="NewsOK">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsok.com/article/2951550/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320112840/http://www.newsok.com/article/2951550/|archive-date=March 20, 2007 |title=First 'Chain Saw' madman remains fond of grisly role |last=Triplett |first=Gene |date=October 6, 2006 |work=NewsOk/[[The Oklahoman]] |access-date=November 22, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The house was not cooled, and there was little ventilation. The crew covered its walls with drops of animal blood obtained from a local slaughterhouse.<ref name="HooperInterview"/> [[Art director]] [[Robert A. Burns]] drove around the countryside and collected the remains of cattle and other animals in various stages of decomposition, with which he littered the floors of the house.<ref name="NewsOK"/>

The special effects were simple and limited by the budget.<ref>[[#Freeland02|Freeland 2002, p. 241]]</ref> The on-screen blood was real in some cases,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100135,00.html |title='Chainsaw' Cuts Up the Screen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024220252/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100135,00.html |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |last=Weinstein |first=Farrah |date=October 15, 2003 |publisher=[[Fox News]] |access-date=July 12, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> such as the scene in which Leatherface feeds "Grandpa". The crew had difficulty getting the stage blood to come out of its tube, so instead Burns's index finger was cut with a razor.<ref>{{cite video |people=Hansen, Gunnar (Actor)|date=2008|title=The Texas Chain Saw Massacre audio commentary |medium=DVD |publisher= Second Sight Films |time=1:08:17 |quote=we couldn't get the blood out of the tube onto the knife edge and so after the fourth or fifth take... I turned away from everybody... and just cut her}}</ref> Burns's costume was so drenched with stage blood that it was "virtually solid" by the last day of shooting.<ref name="TCMCompanion">[[#Jaworzyn04|Jaworzyn 2004, pp. 8–33]]</ref> The scene in which Leatherface dismembers Kirk with a chainsaw worried actor William Vail (Kirk). After telling Vail to stay still lest he really be killed, Hansen brought the running chainsaw to within {{convert|3|in|cm|0}} of Vail's face.<ref name="MovieGoing">[[#Haines03|Haines 2003, pp. 114–115]]</ref> A real hammer was used for the climactic scene at the end, with some takes also featuring a mock-up. However, the actor playing Grandpa was aiming for the floor rather than his victim's head.<ref name=SXSWTexas/> Still, the shoot was quite dangerous, with Hooper noting at the wrap party that all cast members had obtained some level of injury. He stated that "everyone hated me by the end of the production" and that "it just took years for them to kind of cool off."<ref name=SXSWTexas>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Nigel M|title=SXSW: Tobe Hooper On Why Audiences Get 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' Better Now Than When It Was First Released|date=March 14, 2014|url=https://indiewire.com/article/sxsw-tobe-hooper-on-why-audiences-get-texas-chainsaw-massacre-better-now-than-when-it-was-first-released|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904012702/https://indiewire.com/2014/03/sxsw-tobe-hooper-on-why-audiences-get-texas-chain-saw-massacre-better-now-than-when-it-was-first-released-28993/|archive-date=September 4, 2017|work=[[IndieWire]]|access-date=September 3, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Twitch>{{cite web|last1=Gayne|first1=Zach|title=SXSW 2014 Interview: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE Director Tobe Hooper Talks His Legacy of Unspeakable Horror|url=http://screenanarchy.com/2014/03/sxsw-2014-interview-texas-chainsaw-massacre-director-tobe-hooper-talks-his-legacy-of-unspeakable-hor.html#ixzz3Fsd4ZI5M|date=March 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903211244/http://screenanarchy.com/2014/03/sxsw-2014-interview-texas-chainsaw-massacre-director-tobe-hooper-talks-his-legacy-of-unspeakable-hor.html|archive-date=September 3, 2017|website=[[Screen Anarchy]]|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The gas station featured in several scenes of the film is located in [[Bastrop, Texas]]. It now operates as a horror-themed attraction, Texas barbecue restaurant, and motel. To maintain its resemblance to the film, the owners preserved various antiques, including the vintage sign that reads "We Slaughter Barbecue".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Herrera |first=Andrés |date=July 24, 2024 |title=The Gas Station |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/the-gas-station |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725014818/https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/the-gas-station |archive-date=25 July 2024 |website=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]]}}</ref>