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know from the research that it does indeed create some

insensitivity to other people's feelings of fear, or

terror, or if we see people on the street that

need help, we can't sympathize with them anymore. We don't have the

empathy that apparently, as a society, that

we used to have. -Even now it's kind

of like old hat. I look down and

go, OK, whatever, she's getting tortured. Yeah, OK. Chainsaw to the head,

yeah, OK, whatever. So I'm desensitized by it,

but I love watching it, and I love making it. -The horror's all

around us at all times, whether you want to

believe it or not. Just turn on the news. You know, people

are being abducted, and raped, and

killed, and beheaded, and dumped by the side of

the road every single day. None of this is

from the imagination of a horror film director. WOMAN 1: Texas

Chainsaw Manicure. [MUSIC] -I Had seen the original

"Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It really freaked me out, so

what I ended up doing was -- my best thinking was, if I

see it about a dozen times it's going to become so familiar

that it won't freak me out anymore, and really all that

happened was it just drove that wedge deeper and deeper

each time I saw that movie. And I penned about a

five minute scenario about a woman who goes

to a beauty parlor, gets her hair done, wants to get

a manicure, Leather Face comes out with a chain saw and

gives her the manicure. And she comes out of

the beauty parlor, and I'm her husband waiting in

a pickup truck, and she comes and she goes, look honey, I

got the best manicure ever. And I had a friend

from high school who was now a screenwriter in

Hollywood, and I showed him and his wife my five minute

video of the Texas Chainsaw Manicure, and he said, you know

what a coincidence, my writing partner and I have an office

right across the hall from Toby Hooper, the director of the

original Chainsaw Massacre. And Toby, was working on

"Poltergeist" at the time, and he said if you leave

me a copy of the Manicure, I can maybe walk it into Toby. I said, well that'd be cool. I mean that'd be kinda

cool for him to watch it. So I did, and he did,

and Toby watched it, and Toby loved the Manicure. And Toby loved my

performance in the Manicure. And Toby be called in his

producing partner, Steven Spielberg, who also watched

the Manicure and loved it. And two years later,

that was 1984, two years later when they were

casting "Texas Chainsaw II," I got the job based

on my little cameo the "Texas Chainsaw Manicure". I never auditioned for it. I Never met Toby until

I got to Austin, Texas to get my head shaved and

start going undergoing the transformation

from me to Chop Top. And that really, kind of,

was how I got my big start. [MUSIC] -Yeah, some of them bug

the sh*t outta you, yeah. But you know, it

ranges from little kids to doctors and lawyers. You know? I mean the fans are a

pretty eclectic group. You know? -I've really been lucky. I've never had

anybody at a horror convention bother me intensely. -With traveling around

in different cities, and meeting different people for

these conventions, I've met -- yeah -- I've met

all kinds of people. For the most part,

the fans that I meet are relatively normal,

appreciative people. -It was our first convention

ever, and a fan comes in. And it was packed. -"Grindhouse" had just

come out a month before. So there was just a

lot of people waiting to get signatures from us,

and it was our first time so we were just, you

know, overwhelmed, and this guy comes up,

and he's very excited, and he gives me a gun. And it's heavy, and

he's like, I want you to shoot anybody

in the audience. And I was just like, I'm OK. I was like, oh cool. -And so she points the gun,

and he's like, you shoot it. [INTERPOSING VOICES] -And this person goes, it

doesn't have a red cap on it. And we're like -- -The tip. And now she's like, what is it? And I was like, is

this a real gun? -And he says, yeah. It's loaded -It's my gun. And I was like, it's loaded? -And then Geoff Bayhi had

heard all of it, and so he -- -He grabs the gun,

and he opens the gun and notices it has

real bullet in it. -And in 2 seconds security

was around the guy, like had him down, and I had to

explain to him that it was just all make believe. You know? Like he thought that

we had killed people. He was like, oh yeah,

shoot somebody -- -And she was gonna

shoot the gun. She could have

killed someone there. It was crazy. -It was a crazy signing. -Yeah. -Well I've never had

really any crazy ones. No one's ever, you know,

threatened us or anything. You know? But there are some

pretty eccentric ones. One guy will come over

and he'll spend $400, you know, and you'll sign some

photos, then he takes them and he folds them, sticks them

in his pocket and walks away. -It was -- somebody had spilled

some stage blood on the name Otis on the floor

plate, and I thought, that's weird, you know? Then I went down and I had

breakfast, and then I came up and I was in the other

elevator, and the door opened and there was more blood on

the other Otis [INAUDIBLE]. And it turned out

it was a stalker that had done that

intentionally. In fact, she called

up the room -- I remember I was already

asleep or something, and the phone rang and this

female voice said, hello -- this female voice said, I'm

your stalker, and I said, I'm sleeping now,

stalk me tomorrow. And I hung up the

phone and that was it. -Mine were both

female, and there was a kind of a psycho

sexual thing going on. But they both melted

away into the darkness. -You know, some

fans will stand here and spider webs

will form on them. You know, they

stand there all day and they're interviewing

you all day, but normally we have a

signal with security. You know, we do that,

it's time to get this -- ask them to go for a walk

or something, you know. -Last one I did,

I lost my wallet, and I lost my bag out of

this stupid [INAUDIBLE] -- oh sh*t, I lost it again! It's like 1992,

like lap sack thing. Like [INAUDIBLE] --

I left it somewhere. Both of them, in the middle

of thousands of people were brought back to the

concierge, and put in the lost and found. No offense to LA, but sh*t

you lost that stuff in LA and it'd be gone. You know, I had my wallet in

it, nobody even opened it, they just brought it back, and

it was like, I just came up, nobody opened anything. It was just, basically, saying

a lot about the kind of people. -My name's Tunisia and I'm

doing the Monster Shoot Pinup Calendar, and I am the werewolf. [HOWL] [MUSIC] -My name's Ren Murry. My company is Golden Era Pinups. It's kind of our art that we do. You know, really a lot of

re-creation of classic pinup -- you know, whether it be classic

[INAUDIBLE] photography, or Bettie Page Photography. Gil Elvgren is, you know,

a legend in the industry. Elvgren's paintings

are, you know, what we call today cheesecake,

which is the whole, you know, cutesy kind of

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