When I was in junior high a friend and I decided that we wanted to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
. I had never seen a real horror movie before, but I figured I was in the 6th grade and was man enough to handle it. I was wrong.
A few years earlier I had seen parts of a horror movie called The Hand about a severed hand that scurried around killing people and I was immediately scarred for life. To this day I’m still terrified of severed hands. So I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I have since seen it several times and horror is now one of my favorite genres. I recently visited two of the movie’s most recognizable locations.
First, we have the gas station from TCM. It is now called Bilbo’s Texas Landmark and appears to be abandoned. The place was completely locked up so I couldn’t get inside, but looking in the windows I could tell that the place definitely didn’t look like it was doing any business. We found it a few miles down Highway 304 in Bastrop, Texas.
Here’s another “then and now” shot.
Here we have the famous TCM Family House where most of the gory madness took place. It was originally located in Quick Hill in Austin, Texas but in the late 90’s it was purchased by the Antlers Inn in Kingsland, Texas and moved there where it was turned into the Kingsland Old Town Grill. Currently, it is closed and is due to reopen as Junction House Restaurant in February 08.
This note was posted on the front door about the restaurant’s forthcoming opening. There were employment applications in a little box next to the door.
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About On Location: A lot of movies are filmed here in the central Texas area, so I hunt down some of these places and post pictures of them.
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You read that right. Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors is coming right here to Austin, Tx for three nights of blood splattering horror movie fun.
From January 18 - 20 Fangoria will be hosting films, celebrity meet and greets, and general horror related nastiness from the Renaissance Austin Hotel. Guests include celebrities Tom Savini, Kane Hodder, and Austin’s very own Robert Rodriguez and Harry Knowles (who is terrifying in his own right) and many others!
Click here for all the gory details.
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In a move that has rocked the movie industry to its very core, Wal-Mart has stopped offering movie downloads on its website. Actually, the news didn’t rock anything, because only 12 people nationwide even knew Wal-Mart offered movies for download in the first place, and I’m one of them.
The decision came after Hewlett Packard announced that it would no longer be producing the software Wal-Mart used to operate its video on demand service. Wal-Mart immediately told HP to “suck it” and downloaded a full rip torrent of the program complete with keygen and 25 jpegs of upskirt porn. Unfortunately, the torrent was in a compressed RAR format and Wal-Mart is only running the free version of WinZIP, so the company scrapped the plan.
While you can no longer download movies from Wal-Mart’s website, you can still purchase DVDs online and have them shipped to you. This is sooooo 2004, but the only other option is to…go to a Wal-Mart store!
Going to a Wal-Mart store is a sometimes dangerous endeavor, due in most part to its high density of morbidly obese and/or inbred clientèle. Don’t get me wrong, I shop at Wal-Mart on a regular basis, but every time I’m in there I feel like I’m the only normal human being that’s been in that store for days. Do you get that feeling? It’s like visiting a circus sideshow after eating a trash bag full of shrooms.
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My brother, who excels at being awesome, got me a Master Replicas lightsaber for Christmas. The one that lights up like a real lightsaber and makes all the cool sounds. I got him a $20 remote control helicopter from Wal-Mart made out of Styrofoam that spins out of control and crashes if you look at it funny. Sorry dude.
An added bonus about this lightsaber is that it scares the hell out of my dog. I guess it reminds her of lightening, which she is also terrified of. Or maybe she’s shell shocked from the Clone Wars, although I don’t think she was involved with that whole mess. Here I am showing it off:
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NBC is about to kick your TV into turbo boost with its upcoming Knight Rider movie. Here’s a sneak peak at the teaser trailer:
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