Teri McMinn, Kim Henkel set ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ record straight

Henkel said when he and director Tobe Hooper wrote together, Henkel would type up the pages and give them to Hooper.

“Our criteria for if we were on the right track was if I kept him chuckling,” Henkel said.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre stars Marilyn Burns, William Vail, McMinn, Allen Danziger and Paul A. Pertain as friends driving through Texas to visit a memorial. When they run out of gas, they come upon a house inhabited by chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) and his cannibal family (Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, John Dugan).

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So McMinn has written the novella Pam Lives: Beyond the Texas Chain Saw Massacre. New material continues to be developed, with an animated version in the works for next year.

“I’m both apprehensive and very curious,” Henkel said.

To McMinn, the continued life of Texas Chain Saw proves Pam right.

“It’s like the quote from Pam, ‘There are moments in life where we cannot believe what is happening is really true. Pinch yourself, you may find out it is,'” McMinn said. “I’d say this is one.”