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I watched The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for the first time this weekend. What a treat! It's scary by today's standards. It was also well-crafted, with good use of music and a good pace throughout. Some little mysteries were left to the viewer's intellect to solve. Also, Tobe Hooper (who also directed Poltergeist) seemed to understand that what's scary isn't what Leatherface is going to do to me, it's seeing what Leatherface did to the last 50 victims. This is rightfully a classic.

If I recall, UT's Harry Ransom Center has Gunnar Hansen's leather face on display.

I get to share the history, too. The filming location is within a mile of my house, near Round Rock's La Frontera shopping center. Thanks for the heads up, Google Earth!

From the Google Earth/Wikimapia tag for the location:

Quick Hill in Round Rock, Texas, was the location for much of the filming of the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" film. The house used in the film was moved to Kingsland, Texas, where it now sits as a restaurant addition to the historic Antlers Hotel. The restaurant is called The Old Town Grill.