Texas Chainsaw is known to be a highly influential film focusing on the 'slasher' genre. It is written by Tobe Hooper and the film itself featured cast who were mainly non-professional actors and it only costed $83,532 to make the whole film. The film became the most successful film due to its use of the marketing techniques for example it used the false document technique and it was based on true events which made the audience feel that it could happen in reality. By following the documentary style, Hooper used his past documentary cameraman skills to create an important mise-en-scene. The house was modelled on crime scene notes describing Gein's house (the bones hanging from the ceileing) Moreover, the film was inspired by the Wisconsin serial killer, Ed Gein and this is reflected by the character called 'Leatherface.' The film is known to become a success because of word of mouth and not to a marketing campaign unlike Psycho.
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