The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Although proclaimed to be based on true events, this movie was inspired from the horror stories of two real-life kidnappers and serial killers, Ed Gein and Elmer Wayne Henley. Most of the story is fictional only inspired by two disturbing murderous American psychopaths.

The story goes as followed: five young adults take a road trip through Muerto County, Texas. As they pass by a cattle slaughter house they pick up a demented low IQ hitch hiker. The hitch hiker and his family happen to work at the slaughter house. When the mentally insane hitch hiker gets upset and stabs one of the adults he gets thrown out of the vehicle. The young group then stop at the nearest gas station, low on gas, but the gas station owner (who happens to be the father of the deranged hitch hiker) says he has no more gas to sell. They decide to visit a nearby abandoned house that was previously owned by the father of a friend. When they get there they decide to go exploring, only to find another house tucked out further in the boonies.... only this house was never abandoned. This house belongs to an unhinged family of murderers, one of the brothers being the hitch hiker and the other "Leatherface" who likes to kill his victims with a chainsaw, along with their father, the gas station owner. The fictional story emulates some of the grisly horrific details exposed after real-life killers Ed Gein and Elmer Wayne Henley were caught and put to trial. Body snatching, murder, mutilation, the collecting of victim's bones and skin, and the overall extremely mentally challenged and psychotic persona of this rural crime family. This movie is definitely a cult classic horror film, and not for the faint of heart.