There's a cabinet filled with Texas Chainsaw shirts and tank tops, black baseball hats, stickers, bobble heads and shot glasses in case you want proof you visited the spooky home. Plus, standing underneath one of the TVs was the legend himself, Leatherface, a life-sized model with his trusty chainsaw in hand.
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The wall I sat next to had autographed photos from the actors in the film placed around a Texas Chainsaw movie poster. I was seated at my table in the Club Car Lounge and my fear turned into amazement. The hostess took me past the stairs and through the same walkway where Leatherface opened a large metal door and grabbed a woman trying to escape the house. It's also the way to the Club Car Lounge Bar. The first thing you see when you walk into the Grand Central Cafe is the spot where Leatherface slid open a large metal door and hit a unsuspecting man with a hammer. Well, if there weren't people eating or the hostess and waitresses carrying around hot plates of food. I opened the door and it was like I was in the movie. I will admit, I was lured into the house by the great smell of food in the air. Now I was there, walking up the steps where unsuspecting people (OK, fine, actors) have been lured into the home. So many nights I've replayed the scenes in that film over and over again.
My heart sank into my stomach when I arrived at the Antlers Inn road that led me to the gravel paved parking lot. Driving into Kingsland, I could feel my hands getting sweaty as I gripped the steering wheel. Hearing that it was only a few minutes away had my attention. I was originally going to Horseshoe Bay for another story, when I learned about the house that piqued my interest. But horror buffs will want to check out this house.īefore I entered the Grand Central Cafe. I'm not going to act like I'm a huge horror movie buff or that Halloween is my favorite holiday. But knowing it was where The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed in 1973 is surreal. From the outside, the Grand Central Cafe and the Club Car Bar, on the Antlers Inn property, looks like any normal restaurant. The Queen Anne-style home sits nestled in the Hill Country town of Kingsland, two hours north of San Antonio.
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On a recent trip to the Texas Hill Country I got to feel how five friends felt when they ran into Leatherface, the chainsaw-swinging, face-wearing serial killer. Sometimes you hear about places that have been used in movies like the Alamo in Pee-wee's Big Adventureor Top Notch Burgers from Dazed and Confused and think it would be cool to visit those places and see what those characters saw, feel how those characters felt. Now, as a 30-year-old man, while sitting in the home of one of the most iconic horror movie monsters of all-time, I'm feeling an urge to hide under the covers again. No biggie, right? Well, one of those nights, a friend of his decided to put T he Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Photo by Gabriel RomeroĪs a kid I would stay at cousins' houses for your typical sleep over, family gatherings, pizza and movies. The Antler Inn property is home to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre house, now the Grand Central Cafe, which was moved to Kingsland in 1998.
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