Tobe Hooper, photo by Getty Images.
Vegetarian Inducing
4. The story of road-tripping Texans who make a regrettable pit-stop at a house occupied by inbred, cannibalistic, grave-robbing serial killers is apparently more than it would appear at first bloody glance. “In a way I thought the heart of the film was about meat; it’s about the chain of life and killing sentient beings, and it has cannibalism in it, although you have to come to that conclusion by yourself because it’s only implied,” Hooper told Bizarre Magazine, while also mentioning that both he and director Guillermo Del Toro (“Hell Boy,” “Pans Labyrinth”) stopped eating meat because of the movie.