In the remake of the Texas ...
Question: In the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, they showed what looked to be real footage of a man doing a walk through the basement of the house. At the end he gets killed; I was told this was a real-life shot but I wanted to know if it was or not.
Answer: It's not clear to me whether you're asking whether the footage itself is real or whether it re-creates something that actually happened, but in any event the answer is no. The real-life basis for both The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and the 2003 remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the case of Wisconsin necrophile Ed Gein, who murdered two women and dug up a whole lot of others from various cemeteries, making macabre artifacts from their body parts. He was arrested in 1958. Since two murders is pathetically low by the standards of horror stories, the various writers and filmmakers who've had their way with Gein's story have upped the body count. None, however, has topped the sheer ghoulishness of the artifacts found in Gein's farmhouse.
