Along with George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" and Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is one of a wave of subversive underground horror pictures released in the late '60s and early '70s that channeled the anxiety surrounding contemporary social issues - civil rights, the trauma of the Vietnam War, economic woes - into transgressive cinema. Hooper's dark nightmare of murder and cannibalism in the American South has become, in the years since its original release, a landmark in the horror genre. It just kind of bent my view of country folk." I'm from rural America, Northern Illinois. "I kept desperately looking for the zipper in the costume, the boom shadow, something to give me a bit of distance.
"To me, it was so powerful," Moseley said. But the images in Tobe Hooper's film stayed with him. He already had graduated from college and was working as a copywriter at an ad agency in Boston when he caught a double feature of "Enter the Dragon" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." He doesn't remember the year exactly, maybe 1975, maybe 1976. But to hear Moseley tell it, his path to acting, specifically his involvement with the "Chainsaw" movies, might as well have been preordained. It's an unusual career path for a Yale grad with a degree in English who still enjoys reading Dostoevsky. For me, I'm so grateful to have been able to extend it for a few more years." "It's cool to know that you can love monsters," Moseley said.
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Moseley's filmography includes "Pink Cadillac," starring Clint Eastwood, and Disney's Jack London adaptation "White Fang," and he's appeared on television series including "ER," "The Practice," even "Days of Our Lives." But more often, it's grimmer fare that pays the bills - cannibals, child murderers, he's even due to play Charles Manson in a movie set for release later this year. Moseley is one of a community of actors - Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Sid Haig, Michael Berryman, Doug Bradley, Ken Foree, William Forsythe, Linnea Quigley, Debbie Rochon and Dee Wallace, among others - who appear in genre films together and frequent the international circuit of horror conventions the way some performers make the rounds of film festivals each year. Since his breakthrough role as the character Chop Top in 1986's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," Moseley's carved out a gruesome niche for himself with parts in such movies as "Army of Darkness," "House of 1000 Corpses," "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and "2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams." In "Texas Chainsaw 3D," the Lionsgate horror sequel that opened Friday, he plays the father to the power-tool-wielding villain Leatherface in a 1970s-set prologue. Mainstream moviegoers might not immediately recognize Moseley, but the 61-year-old character actor is well known to horror fans. "I was lying on the floor of the house, right inside the front door, and down the hall the sliding steel door was open and there was red felt with a bunch of animal skulls," the actor said on a recent sunny morning over coffee, recounting his experience shooting the new horror film "Texas Chainsaw 3D." "People were stepping over me because I was staying in position for the next shot, and I was covered with blood and a bunch of chicken feathers and it was hot and I was all squishy, but I had that moment of, yeah, I'm home." LOS ANGELES - It was a typical day at the office for Bill Moseley.
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