The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was low-budget
film production about a family of
cannibals in
Texas, who abducted people stopping at their gas station. One of the main characters--Leatherface--killed his victims by assaulting them with a chainsaw. Based loosely, like the films
Psycho and
Silence of the Lambs, on the true story of the [serial killer]
? [Ed Gein]
?. The film was banned in
Great Britain,
Germany, and
India.