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Eat BBQ Right Now Inside the Real ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Gas Station and B&B
Pile into your Chevy van with some good friends and head out to Texas for some delicious BBQ at the genuine gas station from the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Actually, the van used in the original movie was a Ford Super Van, but you get the drift.
To get there, make your way down Texas Highway 71 toward Bastrop and pull into the driveway with a sign that reads “The Gas Station.” You will know you are there if you see the Coca-Cola marquee above the stoop that reads “We Slaughter/BARBQUE.” If it looks familiar, it should, especially for horror fans, because it is the repurposed building from the classic Tobe Hooper film; you know the one.
Brisket, Sausage, and Chili are all on the menu at this Texas BBQ. Rest assured, unlike the Sawyers from the movie, no humans make up any part of the nutritional information.
Sadly, we haven’t visited yet (it’s high on our bucket list), but Sabrina Martinez, a journalist for Medium has and we thought we would pass on what she found to you. Be sure to check out her full story from 2019 at Medium.
Besides being a roadside cafe, The Gas Station is also a Bed and Breakfast. That’s right, you can book a cabin just outside the restaurant for only $129 a night. Apparently, grabbing a reservation is pretty difficult due to the volume of fans, but don’t have a meltdown like Franklin Hardesty (a character from the movie) just keep trying.
Roy and Lisa Rose bought the property in 2015. They started renovating it, with dreams of turning the iconic location into a hospitality business complete with memorabilia from the movie. The gift shop is also where you find an assortment of horror movie merch. They finally finished refurbishing the lot and opened its doors for business in 2016.
“This was Roy’s favorite movie since he was 10 years old. He contacted the owner of the property to see if she would sell it, for years, she was not interested,” They told Medium. “She called on Roy’s 40th birthday and was ready to sell.”
The site also hosts some meet-and-greets for horror fans. On July 15, Danielle Harris (Halloween 4, Hatchet) will be there to mingle with fans, sign autographs and take photos.
Throughout the span of civilization, big, expensive museums have been important in documenting the evolution of society. But, if you ask me people like Roy and Lisa Rose are doing the most important work by preserving places that would otherwise be ignored and forgotten; they aren’t considered meaningful to civilization. Sure there is the Smithsonian which is dedicated to pop culture, but even that curation is limited.
The Gas Station might just be a minor part of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre overall, but it still had an impact. It was the start of the horror movie trope where characters ignore red flags or forewarnings from creepy old people. Hey, you can see a Picasso anytime, and yes that’s exciting, but to actually eat Texas BBQ at a classic movie location where the film is about people killing people and eating them via BBQ, now that’s exciting!
The Gas Station is located at 1073 SH 304 in Bastrop, Texas. It is open from 10 am to 7 pm daily except Mondays. Call (512)-321-SAWS for more details.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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