Is the chainsaw massacre still alive?

Answer 1

Although The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was touted as a true story, it really isn't. It was merely inspired by a true story. There is a big difference.

In the words of another answerer, "The true parts are: there is Texas, chainsaws are sold there."

The creators had heard the Ed Gein story. Gein, from Plainfield, WI killed several women on his remote farm and made furniture and clothes out of the bodies. Gein was found insane and lived the rest of his life institutionalized until his death in the 1970s.

Gein also inspired the book Psycho that was later made into a hit movie by director Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s. Gein was also the inspiration for the Buffalo Bill character in The Silence of the Lambs. And both The Silence of the Lambsand Psycho are fictional stories too, just like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has about as much truth in it as Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs: almost none. A few tiny grains of fact do not a true story make.

So, the only true part of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was that Ed Gein wore the skin of his victims like clothing, decapitated and disemboweled them before hanging them up in his house, and may possibly have eaten some of their remains.

Ed Gein merely sparked the idea for a fictional story (three fictional stories, rather). Neither The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nor Psycho, nor The Silence of the Lambs are "based on a true story." They are merely inspired by one.
Movies are not actually alive, however much they may come to life on the screen.

Answer 2

yes he is still no where to be found. cops searched for 2 years and the only clues they could find was a knife on a highway with blood and the blood said iam going to saw you down, in 2008. another thing that happened was in 2009 a old man was in a house that looked like the house the Texas chainsaw was filmed in! a old man screamed to death and choked up on rope

Answer 3

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a fictional story. The events depicted in the movie never actually happened. There has never been a "chainsaw massacre" in Texas committed by a deranged and cannibalistic family. The so-called "real story" behind the movie -- the Ed Gein story -- didn't happen in Texas, didn't happen with a chainsaw, and wasn't a massacre.

Answer 4

The Texas Chainsaw Masscare is a movie, it is neither dead nor alive. As for the character Leatherface, the same applies to him. Fictional characters were never alive, except for in our imaginations.

Answer 5

No, Leatherface is not dead, because he was never alive in the first place. He is a fictional character. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never actually happened in real life. It's fiction. See the Related Question.

Answer 6

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is loosely based on the real life murders of Ed Gein who died in 1984.

Answer 7

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is entirely fictional, although some aspects of the killer were based on real people. Since it is fiction, the characters never lived.

Answer 8

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn't real. It never actually happened. See the Related Question below.

Answer 9

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a movie, not a person. The original 1974 version can still be rented. If you are referring to Leatherface, he is a fictional character.

Answer 10

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a movie, movies cannot be alive.