Look Inside the 1974 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' House, Now Serving up Southern Fare

Horror fans passing through Texas can now dine in an authentic piece of film history. The iconic early 1900s Victorian house featured in the 1974 slasher flick, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is now open as a southern restaurant in Kingsland, TX, complete with nods to the cult classic.

The restaurant, called Hooper's in homage to director Tobe Hooper, is described as "casual southern pub fare" on a reservation website—though currently, the restaurant is only taking waitlisted customers. "Inside, you can find both subtle and bold nods towards the history of the house," the description states, which are evident in a recent viral TikTok video that got a look inside while visiting for lunch.

According to the TikToker, who goes by the "Paranormal Princess," the restaurant is immediately recognizable as the famous Sawyer house.

"If walking up to the restaurant doesn't immediately give you some nostalgia, opening these doors and seeing the stairs definitely will," she says in voiceover. "It really makes you feel as though you're stepping right onto the movie set." You can even sit and dine in the Sawyer family's very same dining room seen in the film, which in fact she did during her visit.

In addition to thoughtful aesthetic touches, the menu features cocktails with tongue-in-cheek names such as "Grandpa Sawyer," "The Ripper," and "No One Lives Forever," as well as sandwiches like "Hitchhiker's Grilled Chicken" and the "Chicken Slaughter Sandwich."

Though the home was originally located in Round Rock, Texas, in 1998 it was disassembled and transported about 60 miles away to the Antlers Inn resort in Kingsland, about an hour away from Austin, in an effort to preserve the history. When it was reassembled, a white porch was added in addition to some other updated touches.

Before the current owners bought the house earlier this year, it had been another restaurant called the Grand Central Café, which did not take advantage of the house's history.

"We’re absolutely, 100 percent leaning into it,” new owner Simon Madera told the Dallas Morning News back in April, before the restaurant reopened this summer. "There’s a lot of delicate pieces that we’re adding to the place to pay homage to the movie."

"There was no real nod to it,” Madera added. "One of the things that we wanted to do is become a little bit more respectful [to the movie]. Part of it is Hooper’s, the last name of Tobe Hooper. It rings like a really Southern-type approach."

From one fan's perspective, anyway, it seems safe to say they did the home justice. You can compare the current state to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer, below.