Texas Chainsaw Massacre Actor Confirms He Was Paid In Drugs, Not Money


Night Court star John Laroquette confirms an old rumor about him being paid in weed for recording the Texas Chain Saw Massacre opening narration.


Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre actor John Laroquette confirms an old rumor that he was paid in drugs for recording the opening narration. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror movie about hapless young people encountering a bizarre backwoods cannibal family remains one of the most influential fright films of all time. No less a movie authority than Quentin Tarantino even listed Texas Chain Saw Massacre (as it’s properly known) alongside Jaws and The Exorcist as a film he considers to be “perfect.”

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Tarantino may consider Texas Chain Saw Massacre to be a perfect movie, but the film’s making was anything but perfect by Hollywood standards. As one example of how rough and wild the movie’s making was, there’s long been a rumor that the film’s prologue narrator was actually paid by director Hooper not in money but weed. Now that story has finally been confirmed by the very person who received drugs in exchange for his services. Speaking to Parade, Texas Chain Saw narrator Laroquette admitted that he did take marijuana in payment for lending his voice to the film’s creepy opening crawl. Check out the Night Court actor’s remarks in the space below:

“Totally true, [Hooper] gave me some marijuana or a matchbox or whatever you called it in those days. I walked out of the [recording] studio and patted him on the back side and said, “Good luck to you!”

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What’s Next For The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise

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Hooper and company had no idea what they were unleashing as they put together their decidedly low-budget and scrappy original 1974 horror movie. By now however, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror institution, and the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface is a fright film icon alongside the likes of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers. But despite a history that includes no fewer than eight sequels, prequels and remakes, the franchise currently seems to be in a rather uncertain place.

That uncertainty in truth is largely a reflection of the most recent entry in the franchise, 2022’s Netflix-released Texas Chainsaw Massacre, an attempt at a legacy sequel bringing back original final girl Sally Hardesty (played by a new actor) alongside a very old Leatherface and some young victims. Unfortunately, the film’s stab at doing a socially-relevant Texas Chainsaw, featuring a shoehorned-in gentrification theme, fell flat with fans and critics alike. Currently, the film carries a poor 31% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

If producers want to continue milking the Texas Chainsaw Massacre name, they will have to come up with a better idea than Leatherface butchering random hipsters, and Sally Hardesty suddenly being recast as the franchise’s Laurie Strode. An infusion of humor might be one way to revive the series, following the lead of Hooper himself, who made his own Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 an outright comedy. Certainly, the next Texas Chainsaw entry must abandon the idea of taking place in the original film’s direct timeline, unless it wants to set itself in an earlier period when Leatherface might still realistically be active. At the end of the day though, it’s highly unlikely that further movies in the franchise will ever recapture the lightning-in-a-bottle magic of Hooper’s first Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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