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Tobe Hooper said he was in a department store in a long line, he happened to be standing in the hardware section and thought to himself...''I wish I could just take this chainsaw and go through these people''(or something close to that) That's how he got the idea.

As far as the ''based on a true story'' part of it is supposed to be taken from Ed Gein. Personally I don't think it has anything to do with Gein, Hooper just saw some similarities and took the oppurtunity to say it was based on a true story but that's just my opinion, maybe he did maybe he didn't.