{"id":7385,"date":"2013-02-15T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:22:04","slug":"the-man-behind-the-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-man-behind-the-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind The Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February\/March 2013<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<h3><em>Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u2019s<\/em> legendary Leatherface sails among us.<\/h3>\n<p>Interview by Claire Z. Cramer<\/p>\n<p>Gunnar Hansen\u2019s life might have been forever changed in 1973 when, just out of graduate school at the University of Texas in Austin, he was signed to play the killer in a horror movie being filmed nearby. When it was released in 1974, <em>The Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/em> became a runaway success, an instant cult classic, thoroughly controversial, critically decried for its terrifying horror, and of course box-office gold. Hansen\u2019s character Leatherface and <em>Chain Saw <\/em>pioneered what are now familiar and gruesome conventions of the horror genre: the use of power tools as murder weapons, skin masks, and what Hansen calls \u201cfriends in a van going somewhere with one annoying fifth-wheel guy who always gets killed first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Man%20Behind%20the%20Mask.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leatherface.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7393\" title=\"leatherface\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leatherface.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leatherface.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leatherface-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February\/March 2013<br \/>\n<em>Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u2019s<\/em> legendary Leatherface sails among us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7460,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}