Is it really true?
 

OK I watched the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Movie and I have read where this movie is actually a true story. Has anyone else read that or seen the movie? If so, is this movie a real incident?

I mean this may be stupid to aske but I was just wondering what others thought.

Re: Is it really true?
 

Did you write this or did your roommate?

-Rudey
--Just wondering

It's true, however it is very loosely based on the real story. (I would personally use "inspired by" rather than "based on." I can't really remember the details of the murders, but it's the same set of murders that inspired Psycho.

lord of the rings is also based on a true story.

OHHH ok. Very interesting.

ztawinthropgirl
-- RUDEY: No, my roommate didn't write the first post of this thread. I was curious from my readings because I don't believe everything I read.

what happen to dinosista's post?!?

the only part of Ed Gein's history that inspired the movie was that Gein used human skin/bones to make furniture, masks, bowls etc. Also hung up a woman he killed on a meat hook to flay her (after she was dead). The book Deviant is about him.

Check this out with TCM info - http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm

Yup, despite there being today (in the town where the flick was made) plenty of people who will swear blind to having known the family, spent time with the perp in prison, yadda yadda :); the TCM story isn't true at all. As ariesrising said though it was probably inspired very loosely on some level by the real-life serial killer Ed Gein.

P.S. It wasn't a stupid question.

just an urban legend.

It's a true story based on some guy in Piedmont, South Carolina. I understand his daughter took an incredible number of bowls, masks and furniture with her when she went away to college in Rock Hill.

Spooky.

Translation:

I am saying the same thing that ariesrising already said but I'm using more words to sound S-M-R-T, smart.

Thanks ya'll. These are very interesting posts because there are lots of people who think it's true and those who weren't sure. I personally found it a little unbelievable that anyone would actually chase after people with a chainsaw. Who knows though, right? There are quite a few crazies and wackos out there.

*ztawinthropgirl*
-- KillarneyRose, I heard the same story about you.

Oooh, way to tell me off Slugger!!! :rolleyes: For goodness sake, quit while you're behind :)

What happened to the thread ztawinthropgirl posted bashing me, dionysus, and killarneyrose? I bet DeltAlum somehow had a hand in this. He always causes trouble.

-Rudey

You know you love it!

Thank you Damasa, for another attempt to 'instigate'; I'm not going to fall for your attempt thank you very much. I feel sorry for you - always trying to see negativity in something. For the record, I exapnded a little on what Ariesrising said, having read about TCM in articles in movie magazines, when it was re-released in the UK, movies being a particular passion of mine. Often when someone asks about a subject they may well be interested in all the relevant info. people might be able to share with them; not just one point. And, given as this is effectively a community, sharing was what I did. Again, I am sorry to see another attempt on your part to start a flame war - I am really not interested in participating.

dec,

no disrespect here. but if you don't want to let him instigate you, don't respond.

by responding to his little jabs you are just playing into his hands. See, he's trolling for a reaction, and he succeeded.

I may not be the best to give advice on the topic, as i have been known to be passionate, but after awhile, you need to know when to hold em and when to fold em, as the wise Kenny Rogers once said.

Fold em, and let it go.

Kitso
KS 361

the first movie was...don't know how close the remake is to it. Rememeber that it is a remake of a movie that was a different version of someone else's exaggeration/inspired story (psycho) of what really happened. But my question is, how was the movie?

Can you get those at IKEA? ;)

I was told and actually heard today on the radio, that it wasnt a true story, but for purposes of making it a more scary movie, it was created to look like it really happened, like the format of Blair Witch.

After the post you made this morning that got deleted, way to make yourself look classy.

You just keep on making jabs at her, unprovoked. She didn't say a damn thing to you, just happened to post in the same thread, and you had to go and make some nasty remark.

I think you were better off before when your letters weren't in your name.

You should defend me too. I never even talked to that girl and she posted that - she scares me. When I talked to her, she said my weiner is rotting last night for no reason :( And then she said she was going to get Delt Alum on my case because they're friends :( Is this true Delt Alum? I don't understand why everyone is ganging up on me :(

-Rudey

Don’t worry Rudey. For what it’s worth, I think most of us love you.

I don't think so. I think they're only available at the Winthrop University book store. I understand some of the smaller items make great stocking stuffers!


______
'Cause it's never too early to start your Christmas shopping

OK I think I'm a smart guy but i have no clue what's going on. Is she stealing bowls and furniture or something?

-Rudey
--If you say yes, I swear I will email the FBI right now. Just say yes no matter what.

yes

I just went to https://tips.fbi.gov/ and I reported her. All I know is that you better watch out now because the Federales are coming for you.

-Rudey
--Tell me to report her to the Department of Homeland Security too!!!

Do it! :p

Oh Rudey, it's far more sinister than that. Ztawinthropgirl is a mutant lifeform that escaped from a lab somewhere and is trying to infiltrate society by disguising itself as a sorority girl. I think that most of the time it does okay at hiding its true identity but every once in awhile its system shorts out for some reason and it rants and raves and basically behaves like a lunatic.

It's sad, really. Sigh.

Want me to bodyslam the lifeform? Because I would for you.

-Rudey
--But only this one time.

Alright, I know I'm slow and I'm still probably jetlagged or whatever, but when I first read that line I thought Rudey accused her of stealing BOWELS.

Sorry.

Thanks, sweetie, but you'd better not. If you got too close to it and caught some weird disease I'd never forgive myself.

OK That's kinda super gross. I'm not stealing anybody's bowels.

-Rudey
--Oh you must have done something gross in nebraska to have that on your mind!!! EWWWW!

You're probably right. But a bystander who doesn't know everything about the situation might think that when Killarney Rose posted "It's a true story based on some guy in Piedmont, South Carolina. I understand his daughter took an incredible number of bowls, masks and furniture with her when she went away to college in Rock Hill." And that post was followed by ztawinthropgirl's "KillarneyRose, I heard the same story about you." comment, that Killarney Rose's post was a nasty/provocative remark at her and that she had "said a damn thing" to her?
:confused: Given that by the side of ztawinthrop's post it reads: ztawinthropgirl Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003 Location: *School: Rock Hill *Hometown: Piedmont Posts: 243

But that's just how it might look. There's probably much I don't know.

I swear you're retarded. I don't swear either but for you being retarded, I will swear.

-Rudey
--Seriously I'm going to have to ask you what school you go to and contact the administrators if you don't become normal soon.

This is random, and not really related to this thread. But I looked at this ztawinthropgirl's profile or whatever and it's her screenname that has been randomly IM'ing me and asking these absolutely disgusting questions or else calling me a slut and stuff. I would kind of like to know why b/c seriously I don't even know you?? :confused: :confused: :confused:

This winch is worse than the V's!!! :eek:

*shakes head*

Darling, dontcha know by now? She doesn't need to know anyone to call em out.

I'm giving her a half hour before she accuses her roommate of doing such a thing!

no, decadence, you don't know the whole story, and as always, you feel the need to comment on it anyway. ZTAwinthropgirl has a history of harassing KR and many other GCers under her previous screenname, scpiano211, including a very nasty post that she made this morning and deleted. If you'd like to know specifics, contact KillarneyRose.

Truth be told, I didn't realize the coincidence in towns, b/c I certainly don't read GC in that much detail.