Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Episode 2 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). After the release of Halloween 25 Years of Terror on DVD the Horror's Hallowed Grounds segment got a lot of positive feedback from both the fans and from the critics in reviews of the DVD. So this inspired us to shoot another episode. However we didn't have a clue what we would do with it. The Horror Channel had gone belly up and we had all left to start up Dread Central.com. The HHG on-line article was also gaining popularity and even caught the eye of Nathan Hanneman editor and chief of the upstart horror magazine Horror Hound. Soon after Horror's Hallowed Grounds became a recurring article in Horror Hound Magazine, dating back to issue #4. Andrew Kasch, Buz Wallick and myself were set to attend a convention in Mesquite Texas on March 23-25, 2007. So we decided to try and film a Texas Chain Saw Massacre episode while we were there. The results of that attempt is what you see here. Again we were rushed and winging it. We had done sit down interviews with Gunner Hanson, Edwin Neal and Marilyn Burns at the convention with the intention of editing those interviews into the episode but when we got back home we realized due to some technical error the audio didn't record. It would have been great to just have those interviews but it may have been a blessing in disguise because dropping in talking head interviews at a noisy convention would have gone completely against our eventual "style". For years as new HHG episodes came out on various releases the TCM episode started to become a thing of folklore among hardcore HHG fans. Occasionally I would bring it to a convention and screen it to a room of a couple of hundred horror fans but the final product didn't have a home. Then in 2014 I caught wind of Dark Sky Films releasing a 40th Anniversary Blu-Ray edition of TCM. I reached out to them and fortunately they were familiar with HHG. I told them I had this finished episode and by today's standards it's pretty amateurish and slightly embarrassing but if they wanted to use it they could include it and I didn't want anything in return except a few copies of the Blu-Ray of course. This way it can finally get out to the masses. They said absolutely and the rest is history. SUBSCRIBE → bit.ly/2TAyK0B
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