"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.
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"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. The six bedroom house was built in Austin in the 1850s then moved by train in the 1930s and rebuilt brick by brick where it now sits. It sits smack dab in the middle of the Antlers Hotel and Resort. The hauntingly beautiful 6,000 sq foot southern plantation house used in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies 2003 & 2006. 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. Yet for all its madness, Texas Chain Saw Massacre couldnt come close to Geins actual crimes.
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Brochures on the gate remind people the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not real and to respect their privacy. Based on the real-life activities of serial killer Ed Gein, it was so willfully perverse that, as the BBC noted, it was still banned in parts of Europe as late as 2001. Signs clearly state visitors on the property are not welcomed. With a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film starring Elsie Fisher coming to Netflix literally today, Leatherface fans are looking back at the franchise that began in 1974. 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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