There are plenty of fans of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but how many of you know that the house it was filmed in is now a restaurant?
We previously reported on The Alamo Drafthouse free screening at the Junction House restaurant, but for those who missed out, The A.V. Club recently posted a Pop Pilgrims feature on the house.
Continue reading to watch the embedded video and for more information on the house itself...
From the official Junction House website: "Junction House is located on the grounds of Kingsland's historic Antlers Hotel & Railyard. If the outside seems eerily familiar, then you've probably seen "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" because this 1900's Victorian house was featured prominently in the movie before it was moved to this location from Williamson County in the 1990's."
From the AV Club Feature: "People typically chuckle when they hear the Texas Chain Saw Massacre house is now a restaurant, and with good reason: The site of one of the most grotesque, unnerving dinner scenes in horror-movie history now serves up (non-human) meat in a dining room that’s homey, not horrifying. Well, not everyone chuckles: As owner Jeremy Lee explains in this episode of Pop Pilgrims, he receives the occasional e-mail from people who think the house was the site of actual murders....
...The original layout mostly remains. While the upstairs area—where Leatherface’s dead grandmother and barely alive grandfather hung out—has been opened up for Junction House’s bar, the downstairs retains the original layout seen in the film. Director Tobe Hooper and his crew only used the left side of the house; the house’s tenant moved all of his stuff into the right side during the shoot. The sliding door from which Leatherface emerges was built for the film. (So was the dining-room table, which was made from swimming-pool diving boards.)"
If you're interested in more information, visit the Junction House website and The A.V. Club feature. [Thanks BD]
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