Night Court star John Larroquette provided the opening narration for Tobe Hooper’s iconic horror movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A long-standing rumor, one of the many surrounding the rough and ready making of the film, is that Larroquette was not paid for his time with cash but instead was supplied weed for his participation. According to the star himself, that is exactly what did happen.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is Tobe Hooper’s 1974 movie about a group of young people who become the victims of a backwoods family of cannibals, which includes the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. Seen as one of the most influential horror movies of all time, the harrowing movie is grim, gritting and earned a place among the best video nasties of the 70s and early 80s. Being made in a time when things were not done under quite the same intense scrutiny as today’s movies, many aspects of the creation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would not exactly meet standards now. While speaking with Parade, Larroquette was asked about internet rumors of his unconventional pay deal. His response was:
