Edwin annually tours world-wide making many public appearances as 'The Hitch Hiker' at science-fiction conventions and related gatherings. Other top selling CD-ROM projects he has completed are: "Wing Commander II", "The Nile", "The Cartoon History of the Universe", and others. A top voice talent for many years, Edwin was chosen for inclusion in "The World's Greatest Commercials" by Carson Productions. His favorite projects include playing Bassanio to Sandy Duncan's Portia in "Merchant of Venice", in a stage production. ![]() Edwin has worked w/ Oliver Stone in "JFK" and Bob Balaban in "My Boyfriend's Back". As the group ventures though the bucolic landscape, they pass a depleted and crumbling old slaughterhouse, where they decide pick up a dense looking hitch-hiker (Edwin Neal) standing at the side of the road, but this benevolent act backfires horribly as the mood turns increasingly sinister, culminating in the ominous stranger attacking the. While there, he auditioned for role of HitchHiker in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". His favorite projects include playing Bassanio to Sandy Duncan's Portia in "Mer Edwin "Ed" Neal is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as the Hitchhiker in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".īorn in Houston, Texas, USA, following high school Edwin studied w/ Zula Pearson at Lon Morris in Jacksonville, Texas, before moving on to acting/directing studies w/ B. Edwin has worked w/ Oliver Stone in "JFK" and Bob Balaban in "My Boyfriend's Back". Eventually, the filmmakers reached an impact level that looked authentic.Description: Edwin "Ed" Neal is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as the Hitchhiker in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".īorn in Houston, Texas, USA, following high school Edwin studied w/ Zula Pearson at Lon Morris in Jacksonville, Texas, before moving on to acting/directing studies w/ B. The old cannibal man was played by Jim Siedow, and he told Texas Monthly that he didn't want to strike Burns for fear of hurting her. The props department built a special rubber hammer for the scene, but it still couldn't have been fun to constantly get bashed by a co-star. ![]() Burns' character also had to be smashed on the head with a hammer in one scene. Some of the cuts are real, and her visible pain was unfeigned. ![]() One can see her pain on camera, in fact, as her character was jostled about by the cannibal family, and she had to actually climb through scratching bushes. In addition to cutting her own finger, Marilyn Burns sustained the most injuries. The story goes that Hansen, unable to see the floor, slipped in a puddle of fake blood and fell over, flinging his chainsaw into the air. Because he had to wear a mask, Hansen's visibility was cut off, which is a bad situation to be in when operating a real chainsaw. Perhaps most recognizable, the towering Gunnar Hansen played the chainsaw-wielding brute nicknamed Leatherface. A fun piece of trivia: the blood tube for the finger-cutting scene wouldn't work on the day of shooting, so actress Marilyn Burns actually cut her finger open. The final survivor has the dubious honor of seeing her blood sucked straight from her finger by a half-dead 100-year-old cannibal patriarch. They are each killed horribly, getting stabbed, cleavered, and hung on meat hooks. ![]() The backwoods cannibals stalk from their home to hunt the traveling city folk. The film itself is a mere litany of torture and misery. Except after the glory, here comes the shame. Every spring, the Atlas Rendering Company used to throw a big barbecue for Grandpa. In most cases, the forgotten people turn to cannibalism to survive. Grandpas strict liquid diet keeps him as fresh as rose. The film stands as a commentary on the great forgotten swaths of the United States, shoved aside by economic hardship and a lack of resources. The mythology of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is well-known to all horror aficionados, and has inspired a massive subgenre of feckless city dopes who get lost in the impoverished backwoods of America only to be slaughtered by the mutated locals.
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