Hello Internet - and welcome back to the most  inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life's
  Biggest Questions, the place where we wonder  how successfully we can sneak a few Halloween
  specials in before anyone starts to notice.
  What's going on guys - as always, I'll  be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch
  - as we refuel the chainsaw, rev up the belt  before doing an interpretive dance in front
  of a glorious low-light sunset - and suspiciously  ask the question What If Leatherface Was Real?
  Roll the clip.
  You all know the noise, the synonymous chainsaw  buzz from Tobe Hooper's seminal 1974 slasher
  masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - an  indie horror flick, made on a shoestring budget
  that cemented itself as the birth of slasher  cinema - hurtling the collosal killer Leatherface
  into the ranks of iconic horror legends.
  So iconic in fact, that The Texas Chainsaw  Massacre went on to spawn eight horror films,
  a slew of comics and even a place alongside  Scorpion in Mortal Kombat X. Created by renowned
  horror director Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel,  Leatherface is the household name when it
  comes to cannibalistic rural families and  unemployed slaughterhouse slayers - but what
  if he was real?
  Well.
  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but - he  kind of was.
  Before we jump into that whole debacle though  guys, you know the drill by now don't you
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  Leatherface - AKA Jedidiah Sawyer - doesn't  do things the way that most other horror icons
  do.
  He's not supernatural in any way - he wasn't  ushered forward as part of some demonic ritual
  - he's not a criminal mastermind who plays  games with his victims for the shear joy of
  it.
  He's a large man with a chainsaw who wears  peoples skin as a mask, while helping his
  cannibalistic family to round up unsuspecting  road-trip teenagers - chop them into tiny
  pieces and cook them in their world famous  award-winning chilli.
  Yeah - the sequels get a little bit weird.
  And for the most part - Leatherface has one  of the most rewritten origin stories in the
  whole of horror cinema.
  In the 1974 version, he was the straight up  Leatherface we know and love.
  In the 1986 sequel, based 13 years later - he's  shed a few pounds and strapped on a tuxedo.
  Throughout the next strange rewrites and mashups,  he's a pizza-eating transvestite involved
  with an illuminati conspiracy, a dumpster  baby with a rare skin-disorder - and an escaped
  mental hospital patient with a skin-face moustache.
  Still - the sentiment always remained the  same, and director Tobe Hooper explicitly
  stated on several occasions that Leatherface's  prime directive was to be a big murderous
  baby, a killer that never actually murdered  out of malice, but in self-defence at the
  strange, perturbed understanding of feeling  threatened.
  Fear.
  Leatherface is the product of The Sawyers  - his twisted, macabre family that, while
  not only lacking moral fibre - probably also  lack the benefits of a well-rounded diet.
  Far from the truth is the real story then,  and the story of the serial killer that Leatherface
  is based on - Ed Gein, an American murderer  and body snatcher who has also inspired Norman
  Bates from Psycho, and Buffalo Bill from Silence  of the Lambs.
  Gein's story was so twisted, deranged and  physically taboo that his murderous deeds
  struck a chord in the modern publics psyche  - Leatherface WAS real, in the realisation
  that a human being could go to such disturbing  lengths to feel what it'd be like to live
  inside someone else's skin.
  Also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, Edward  Theodore Gein was born in 1906 - and lived
  for the majority of his life in the same town  that the horrific crimes would be committed,
  Plainfield, Wisconsin.
  Although he was only ever found guilty of  murdering two women, tavern owner Mary Hogan
  in 1954 and a Plainfield hardware store owner,  Bernice Worden in 1957 - Gein was also responsible
  for exhuming countless freshly buried corpses  from local graveyards - manifesting in him
  a morbid fascination with the mortality of  flesh.
  After Gein's arrest following the disappearance  of Bernice Worden, county sheriff's would
  search the Gein farm - where they found her  decapitated body in a shed.
  She was hung upside down, with a crossbar  separating her ankles and wrists - and Police
  later reported in their notes that the torso  appeared to be dressed out like a deer.
  However, the unearthing of Gein's strange  fascination with flesh was far from over.
  After searching the house, authorities later  found untold numbers of whole human bones
  and fragments, a wastebasket made from human  skin, human skulls that adorned his bedposts,
  a corset made from a female torso - as well  as leggings, and entire handcrafted masks
  made from the skin of human faces.
  Leatherface was very much real, and he was  born that evening on November 16th 1957.
  Leatherface, both the original 1974 Tobe Hooper  horror flick, and the ever-changing iconic
  horror legend himself, in essence - is a stark  and bloody reminder of the reality of the
  grotesque lengths that the human mind can  go to, the pained and twisted existence of
  Ed Gein.
  Oftentimes, reality hits harder than fiction.
  Horror cinema is a conduit for that, masterfully  handcrafted by Tobe Hooper himself - who held
  up a mirror to the silver screen, and showed  us exactly what true evil looks like.
  Well - unfortunately folks, that's all we've  got time for in today's video, cheers for
  sticking around all the way to the end.
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  a friend, because nothing says Halloween like  the morbid plight of human existence.
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  floating conveniently above.
  On behalf of LBQ, I'd like to wish you all  a Happy Halloween.
  As always, I've been your host Jack Finch  - you've been watching Life's Biggest
  Questions - and until next time, take it easy.
     
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