Good stuff Jon and glad I was to see this as I'd forgotten this book was coming out after getting word of it some months ago. Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains my favourite Horror film so I take much pride in the fact that Gunnar Hansen and I share the same birthday (on the 4th of March). I suspect when you interviewed Hansen he was holding back on stories for the book, but I think my favourite from the TCM shoot is an incident during the legendary 27 hour day when Hansen struggling with a malfunctioning effect to simulate cutting Marilyn Burns' finger lost his cool and cut her finger for real, such was his exhaustion and frustration to get the film finished...
Good stuff Jon and glad I was to see this as I'd forgotten this book was coming out after getting word of it some months ago. Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains my favourite Horror film so I take much pride in the fact that Gunnar Hansen and I share the same birthday (on the 4th of March). I suspect when you interviewed Hansen he was holding back on stories for the book, but I think my favourite from the TCM shoot is an incident during the legendary 27 hour day when Hansen struggling with a malfunctioning effect to simulate cutting Marilyn Burns' finger lost his cool and cut her finger for real, such was his exhaustion and frustration to get the film finished...
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