whose coverage was graphic, “showing brains spilled all over the road” led to his belief “that man was the real monster here, just wearing a different face, so I put a literal mask on the monster in my film.” The idea for featuring a chainsaw came to Hooper while in the hardware section of a crowded store as he contemplated a way to get out quickly through the crowd.
Hooper and Kim Henkelhe original writers of the screenplayormed a corporation named Vortex, Inc., with Henkel as president and Hooper as vice president. They asked Bill Parsley, a friend of Hooper’s, to provide funding for the film. Parsley then formed a company named MAB, Inc. and invested ,000 towards making the film. In return, MAB owned fifty percent of the film and its profits. Production manager Ron Bozman told most of the cast and crew to defer parts of their salaries until after the movie was