During the chaotic dinner scene, Grandpa tries to suck blood from a cut on Sally Hardesty's finger.

Film/Series: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Category: Trivia Fact

Timestamp: 01:14:15

The shooting conditions for the dinner scene were notoriously unbearable—over 100 degrees in a room filled with rotting meat. When it came time to shoot the finger-cutting scene, the prop knife's fake blood tube kept clogging. Exhausted and losing his mind, actor Gunnar Hansen secretly decided to just cut actress Marilyn Burns' finger for real. The scream, and the blood, are completely genuine.

During the chaotic dinner scene, Grandpa tries to suck blood from a cut on Sally Hardesty's finger. in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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