![]() ![]() It’s a minor miracle that in 2022, you can actually visit the house in Kingsland, Texas (operating for the last few years under the name Grand Central Cafe) grab a meal, and take pictures in the rooms where it all happened – with the patient approval of the restaurant’s staff.īut this month comes news that the house is under new ownership. In the 49 years since the classic film was produced, the house that served as the setting for much of the mayhem has been through nearly as much as poor Sally Hardesty herself: faced with demolition, cut from its foundation and moved miles away to a new spot passed to a series of owners who’ve restored it, expanded it, alternatively shying away from and embracing its legacy. But perhaps none is as iconic or – yes, I'll say it – as important as the family home featured in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Each is a historically significant, real location that has not only managed to endure, but to organically become bucket list destinations for horror fans (sometimes to the consternation of their current owners). ![]() The Monroeville Mall from Dawn of the Dead. Or maybe it’s that the very nature of them being practical means they’re a somewhat endangered species, vulnerable to being bulldozed (metaphorically or otherwise) by time and progress. Maybe it’s that only one in a great many of them is an actual iconic setting (I can show you where Don’t Go in the House or The Prowler were filmed here in New Jersey, but no one’s making a pilgrimage out of those destinations). Maybe it’s because there are so few of them compared to the sheer volume of soundstage-bound horror. Houses all right here in Texas-houses that could leave you screaming at night with thoughts of a chainsaw wielding maniac and his cannibal family.There’s something magical about a standing, practical horror location. "His people called and said hey you remember that farm house we used in Texas Chainsaw.maybe a little less creepy but we want that farm house look." said Brian Gannon with the Austin Film Commission. In fact, the Texas Chainsaw remake house was so popular with producer Michael Bay's team, that they came back again for a small little film called Transformers 4: Age of Extinction. Texas Chainsaw was a low budget film that became an iconic franchise spurning sequels and prequels with most of them shot right here in Texas, all at homes that have real character. "It's funny seeing people eating in the dining room that know the movie and they're looking around like ok this is wild." said Wills. Haunted or not, there is still a lot to attract hundreds of fans from around the world each year to the house that started the Texas Chainsaw craze. "Sometimes when you're here in the morning by yourself you hear things upstairs you hear wine bottles moving and there's nothing up there." said Wills. It sits smack dab in the middle of the Antlers Hotel and Resort. ![]() The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed in this old Victorian farm house that has since been restored and turned into a restaurant and bar. "This house was actually built in 1909." said Sabrina Wills of Antlers Inn and Resort.Īnd this is where the horror started. While the owners of the Chainsaw remake house shun visitors and publicity, the original Texas Chainsaw House moved from Round Rock to Kingsland welcomes fans of the movie. "They want to take pictures I'm sure but the people who own the house they had too much publicity." said Barrow. Because of that, neighbors say it has attracted people from around the country-a thorn in the side of the owner and neighbors of the creepy house. The house was not used once but twice - again in 2006 for a prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. "I worked on it years ago did some carpenter work and got it ready for the movie." said Barrow.īarrow was a member of the film crew when producer Michael Bay came to Texas to remake the 1974 classic horror film. ![]() Brochures on the gate remind people the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not real and to respect their privacy. Signs clearly state visitors on the property are not welcomed. The house is still occupied by a real family and part of a working farm. The stately looking house was used as the fictional home where Leatherface and his family the Hewitt's hacked and hung human victims on meat hooks. ![]()
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