John Laroquette confirms the rumor about how he was paid for his work on TexasChainsawMassacre: 'Totally true, [Hooper] gave me some marijuana or a matchbox or whatever you called it in those days.'
Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre actor John Laroquette confirms an old rumor that he was paid in drugs for recording the opening narration. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror movie about hapless young people encountering a bizarre backwoods cannibal family remains one of the most influential fright films of all time. No less a movie authority than Quentin Tarantino even listed Texas Chain Saw Massacre alongside Jaws and The Exorcist as a film he considers to be “perfect.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Tarantino may consider Texas Chain Saw Massacre to be a perfect movie, but the film’s making was anything but perfect by Hollywood standards. As one example of how rough and wild the movie’s making was, there’s long been a rumor that the film’s prologue narrator was actually paid by director Hooper not in money but weed. Now that story has finally been confirmed by the very person who received drugs in exchange for his services.
“Totally true, [Hooper] gave me some marijuana or a matchbox or whatever you called it in those days. I walked out of the [recording] studio and patted him on the back side and said, “Good luck to you!”What’s Next For The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise Hooper and company had no idea what they were unleashing as they put together their decidedly low-budget and scrappy original 1974 horror movie.
That uncertainty in truth is largely a reflection of the most recent entry in the franchise, 2022’s Netflix-released Texas Chainsaw Massacre, an attempt at a legacy sequel bringing back original final girl Sally Hardesty alongside a very old Leatherface and some young victims. Unfortunately, the film’s stab at doing a socially-relevant Texas Chainsaw, featuring a shoehorned-in gentrification theme, fell flat with fans and critics alike.
If producers want to continue milking the Texas Chainsaw Massacre name, they will have to come up with a better idea than Leatherface butchering random hipsters, and Sally Hardesty suddenly being recast as the franchise’s Laurie Strode. An infusion of humor might be one way to revive the series, following the lead of Hooper himself, who made his own Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 an outright comedy.
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