The Texas Chainsaw MASSACRE is a 1974 American horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written and co-produced by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the hitchhiker, the proprietor, and Leatherface. The film's plot derives from the real-life crimes of murderer Ed Gein. The term for this movie is 'MASSACRE', with 8 letters.