# Texas Chainsaw Massacre

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-chainsaw-massacre/24215>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 30, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-chainsaw-massacre/24215 "2000-06-30T22:29:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![PinkMaggot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PinkMaggot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMaggot)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-chainsaw-massacre/24215/1 "2000-06-30T22:29:53Z")

</div>

I’d just like to point out that in TCSM I, the survuivor found her way into an old, locked up room, with a dead woman in it. Also relating to the true story. In TCSM II, they find a shrine with another dead lady, “Grandma”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-chainsaw-massacre/24215/2 "2000-06-30T22:35:16Z")

</div>

Welcome to the SDMB, and thank you for posting your comment.  
Please include a link to Cecil’s column if it’s on the straight dope web site.  
To include a link, it can be as simple as including the web page location in your post (make sure there is a space **before** and **after** the text of the URL).

Cecil’s column can be found on-line at this link:  
[Was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre based on a true story? (28-Mar-1997)](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_253.html)

The column ( **including** Slug Signorino’s illustration) can also be found on pages 253-255 of Cecil Adams’ book “[_Triumph of the Straight Dope_](http://www.straightdope.com/otheroutlets/books.html)”.

(edited to add mention of book)  
(this post has been edited by Arnold Winkelried)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-chainsaw-massacre/24215/3 "2000-07-05T00:40:24Z")

</div>

I was reading an interview with the producer of TTCSM and apparently he was in Sears one day and just saw a chainsaw on sale. No connection with anythiung that happened in the real world, just a cheap (but REALLY effective) prop.