OST [Tobe Hooper]- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974

Label: Waxwork

Reissued 4/18/2025, Originally released 1974

Waxwork Records is proud to release THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE Original Motion Picture Score by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell. In celebration of the iconic film's 50th Anniversary, the long awaited score album is now available for the very first time in any format. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American Independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on heir way to visit an old homestead. Over the 50 years since its release, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has become widely regarded as one of the best and most influential horror films ever made. The film's original score by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell is an experimental exercise in music composing and performance that utilizes non-traditional instruments such as suspended cymbals, aluminum saucepans, a children's toy percussion set, various wildlife calls, whistles, shakers, and more. The result is one of the earliest examples of industrial music and has since become known as the "holy grail" of film scores due to its status of being either lost or destroyed. As such, Hooper and Bell's innovative score has become highly sought after, spawning countless bootlegs and attempts to re-create it for commercial gain. Waxwork Records' release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell marks the first time the official score will be made available anywhere.

Track listing:

1. Main Title
2. Warnings Medley:
   1. Joe Bill's Cemetery Warning
   2. Gas Station Sun
3. Cuts Medley
   1. Feedlot
   2. Hitchhiker's Razor
      
4. Outside Grandpa's - The Mark
5. Inside Grandpa's - Bones
6. Menace Medley:
   1. What Kirk And Pam Don't Know
   2. Pam's Foreboding
   3. Leatherface Slams The Door
7. Jerry X, Leatherface Worries
8. Trouble Moon
9. Distant Disturbance (Sketch 1)
10. Closer Problem (Sketch 2)
11. Franklin X, But Then...
12. Sally Awakens For Dinner, to the End
13. End Titles
14. Descent (Sketch 3)