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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film gifts and horror themed merchandise.

Five facts about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

1. It was not based on a true story, but rather it was inspired by the infamous Ed Gein murders.

2. Director Tobe Hooper wanted the film to earn a PG rating and shot it with that in mind.

3. The title for the screenplay was originally “Head Cheese”, based on the opening conversation with the Hitchhiker. It was later shot under the title “Leatherface”, but it was Warren Skaaren with the Texas Film Commission who suggested its now legendary title to Hooper.

4. The infamous dinner scene was all shot over a grueling 27 hour period because actor John Dugan, who played Grandpa, refused to endure the 10 hour process of getting his make up applied a second time.

5. Leatherface was based on a conversation Tobe Hooper had with a doctor, who told him when he was a pre-med student he once skinned a cadaver in the morgue and made a mask of it for Halloween.

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film gifts and horror themed merchandise.

THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970)

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror themed merchandise.

Equinox | 1970

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror movie merchandise.

its dinner time, come join them!

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror themed merchandise.

Piranha | 1978

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror themed merchandise.

Roy Scheider and “Bruce” in between takes during the filming of Jaws (1975).

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror film merchandise.

Actor Nick Castle (“The Shape”), producer Debra Hill and others on location filming Halloween (1978).

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We love 70s horror. If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror themed merchandise.

Love the skin you’re in with Creepy Co.’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre design by Matt Durston. Priced at $35, it’s available to pre-order for one week and will ship the week of March 9.

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If you are a horror fan, check out these cool horror film collectibles and horror themed merchandise.

Screenwriter David Schmoeller initially wanted John Carpenter to direct Tourist Trap (1979), but after seeing Carpenter’s asking price, producer J. Larry Carol convinced Schmoeller that he should direct the film instead, which he did (and performed admirably in my opinion). As for Carpenter, he would go on to direct a little film called Halloween (1978) in its place.

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If you love vampire films, check out this iconic Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

A shot from The Sorrows of Satan (1926). This shot would go on to be the cover of Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

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If you love gothic and vampire themed products, check out this cool Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

how im tryna sleep

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If you love vampire films, check out this iconic Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

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If you love gothic and vampire themed products, check out this cool Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

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If you love gothic and vampire themed products, check out this cool Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

Climb in and hold me, my love 🕯️

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If you love gothic and vampire themed products, check out this cool Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

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If you love gothic and vampire themed products, check out this cool Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

Dark Gothic Room

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If you love vampire films, check out this iconic Bela Lugosi Dracula Statue.

i want to ride Elvira's Macabre Mobile so bad