


Cast as Leatherface primarily because of his height–a strapping six foot three–Hansen tells Co.Create “I had no real movie experience. Hansen revisits the chaos in new memoir Chain Saw Confidential (Chronicle Books, Sept.

While the violence in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 mother of all slasher films was fake, nearly everything else captured on screen, including the exhaustion, the frustration and anger, was real. It’s a minor miracle that Hansen and the rest of his Texas Chainsaw Massacre castmates made through the shoot more or less intact.
