- Director Tobe Hooper based Leatherface on mass-murderer Ed Gein, who was arrested in 1957.
- Marilyn Burns, whose character was chased by Leatherface through the undergrowth actually cut herself on the branches quite badly, so a lot of the blood on her body and clothes is real.
- The actor whose character was hung up on a meat hook was actually held up by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.
- The movie wasn't released in Australia until the early 1980s.
- CAMEO(Laroquette, John): narrator.
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