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“My family's always been in meat...”
Not as explicitly gory as its reputation, Tobe Hooper’s grisly classic gets its nasty atmosphere across largely by suggestion. It was filmed in 16mm, with a largely amateur cast recruited from the drama department of the University of Texas in Austin, and the movie was shot in the area.
The desecrated cemetery is Bagdad Cemetery, Bagdad Road, Leander, on Route 183, about 25 miles northwest of the city. The gas station was Ryan’s Hills Prairie Grocery, which recently became Bilbo’s Texas Landmark, 1073 State Highway 304, Bastrop (tel: 512.321.2049), east of Austin.
The chicken-infested Sawyer family home stood on Quick Hill Road, Round Rock, I-35, about ten miles north of Austin, Texas. In 1998, after falling into disrepair, it was dismantled and transported to the grounds of the Antlers Hotel in Kingsland, way to the northwest of Austin.
And now? It’s a restaurant. The Four Bears, 1010 King Street, Kingsland (tel: 325.388.4411). Best stick to the vegetarian special.
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LOCATIONS FOR THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
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Austin:
Flights: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
The Four Bears, 1010 King Street, Kingsland (tel: 325.388.4411)
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 remake was filmed mainly around Taylor, Texas, and also at Martindale, Hutto and Walburg. The farmhouse had been built in 1854 on the University of Texas campus and moved out (by horse and buggy) to a 750-acre farm in Taylor in the 1930s. Before filming began, the six-bedroom house had been vacant since the 1960s.
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