The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) was falsely marketed as a true story, a choice that director Tobe Hooper told Rue Morgue magazine in 2004 was influenced by his disillusionment with “being lied to by the [U.S.] government about things that were going on all over the world” in the early 1970s and by the brutal news reporting of the Vietnam War.
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