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* TheOtherDarrin: Bill Johnson replaces Creator/GunnarHansen as Leatherface. Hansen was approached to reprise his role, but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story, claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded.
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** Bill Johnson replaces Creator/GunnarHansen as Leatherface. Hansen was approached to reprise his role, but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story, claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded.
** Ken Evert replaces John Dugan as Grandpa Sawyer/
** Bill Johnson replaces Creator/GunnarHansen as Leatherface. Hansen was approached to reprise his role, but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story, claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded.
** Ken Evert replaces John Dugan as Grandpa Sawyer/
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* ExiledFromContinuity: According to Creator/BillMoseley, [[https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/310917/exclusive-bill-moseley-on-three-from-hell-why-chop-top-never-returned-to-texas/ the rights to Chop Top and the rest of this film's new characters are owned by Sony,]] thus barring them from use in other ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' installments.
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* ExiledFromContinuity: According to Creator/BillMoseley, [[https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/310917/exclusive-bill-moseley-on-three-from-hell-why-chop-top-never-returned-to-texas/ the rights to Chop Top and the rest of this film's new characters are owned by Sony,]] thus barring them from use in other ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' installments. This is why Caroline Williams' cameo is the third film has her go unnamed, as the studio was legally barred from making her character be Stretch.
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Can't find confirmation Hopper thought it was his worst film, all I could find was an article noting he didn't like it.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Despite hating the final product and having a case of MoneyDearBoy noted below, Dennis Hopper did note he also took the part of Lefty due to his character singing "Bringing in the Sheaves."
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* CreatorBacklash:
** In a contemporary interview, Creator/DennisHopper claimed he viewed the film as a joke compared to his CareerResurrection role in ''Film/BlueVelvet'' that came out the same year. He claimed he was miscast as Lefty and only took on the role so he would be close to Willie Nelson's country club.
** On the 2022 4K release, make up artists Gabe Bartalos and Bart Mixon noted they initially disliked the film on release, but eventually warmed up to it over the years.
** Creator/CarolineWilliams had reservations over the infamous chainsaw humping scene, but has now embraced it alongside the rest of the film.
** In a contemporary interview, Creator/DennisHopper claimed he viewed the film as a joke compared to his CareerResurrection role in ''Film/BlueVelvet'' that came out the same year. He claimed he was miscast as Lefty and only took on the role so he would be close to Willie Nelson's country club.
** On the 2022 4K release, make up artists Gabe Bartalos and Bart Mixon noted they initially disliked the film on release, but eventually warmed up to it over the years.
** Creator/CarolineWilliams had reservations over the infamous chainsaw humping scene, but has now embraced it alongside the rest of the film.
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* DeletedScene: Several scenes were deleted by Creator/TobeHooper due to pacing issues. One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects. Another deleted scene also includes the American film critic Joe Bob Briggs complimenting Leatherface on his chainsaw skills before being killed. However, these scenes are present on the 2007 Gruesome Edition DVD special features section.
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* DeletedScene: Several scenes were deleted by Creator/TobeHooper due to pacing issues. Two scenes were present on homed media releases.
** One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects.
** Another deleted scene also includes the American film critic Joe Bob Briggs complimenting Leatherface on his chainsaw skills before beingkilled. However, these scenes are present on killed.
** A lost scene involved Lefty hallucinating chainsaws coming out of his hotel room walls.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Cannon execs made an active effort to monitor the2007 Gruesome Edition DVD special features section.production and slashed the budget as a fallout from the failure of Hooper's ''Film/InvadersFromMars1986''. They went as far as to select the second unit director with someone they wanted over Hooper's objections.
** One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects.
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** A lost scene involved Lefty hallucinating chainsaws coming out of his hotel room walls.
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* OldShame: Creator/DennisHopper considered this to be the worst film he ever did.
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* OldShame: Creator/DennisHopper considered MoneyDearBoy: Or vacation in this to be case. Dennis Hopper admitted he only took the worst film role of Lefty so he ever did.could golf at his friend Willie Nelson's country club, which was close to filming in Austin.
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* TroubledProduction: Thanks to ''Film/InvadersFromMars1986'' having run behind schedule, this film bore the brunt of the fallout from that film's own troubled production. Creator/TobeHooper had to deal with a slashed budget that resulted in numerous scenes being excised and constant supervision from Cannon execs. The monitoring went to the extent that they picked the second unit director, which resulted in a confrontation with a very frustrated Hooper. Not helping matters was that the film was being filmed in an ill-equipped studio during the middle of a record-breaking heat wave in Texas, resulting in Bill Johnson passing out from dehydration and side lined for a week of filming.
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* ChannelHop: The film was released by Creator/TheCannonGroup. Along with the rest of the Cannon library, it's currently owned by MGM, except for the broadcast/streaming rights, which are held by Paramount, and home video, which are handled by 20th Century Fox. Shout! Factory also licensed the film for a Blu-ray.
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* ChannelHop: The film was released by Creator/TheCannonGroup. Along with the rest of the Cannon library, it's currently owned by MGM, except for the broadcast/streaming rights, which are held by Paramount, and home video, which are were handled by 20th Century Fox. Fox until the Disney buyout led to Warner Bros. taking the mantle. Shout! Factory also licensed the film for a Blu-ray.Blu-ray in 2016 with Vinegar Syndrome licensing it for a 4K release in 2022.
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* ExiledFromContinuity: According to Creator/BillMoseley, [[https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/310917/exclusive-bill-moseley-on-three-from-hell-why-chop-top-never-returned-to-texas/ the rights to Chop Top and the rest of this film's new characters are owned by Sony,]] thus barring them from use in other ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' installments.
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* BannedInChina: A release in West Germany in 1986 was not possible because the film was banned before the film could be released to theaters. In 2012 Turbine Medien acquired the rights to the film and started work on getting the banishment revoked. It took them four years until the local court of Berlin-Tiergarten finally lifted the banishment.
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** A release in West Germany in 1986 was not possible because the film was banned before the film could be released to theaters. In 2012 Turbine Medien acquired the rights to the film and started work on getting the banishment revoked. It took them four years until the local court of Berlin-Tiergarten finally lifted thebanishment.banishment.
** In Australia, Hoyts Distribution submitted the film for classification in 1986, but was considered 'highly offensive' and effectively banned for 20 Years, although an unofficial illegal VHS release did appear at retailers in 2000.
** A release in West Germany in 1986 was not possible because the film was banned before the film could be released to theaters. In 2012 Turbine Medien acquired the rights to the film and started work on getting the banishment revoked. It took them four years until the local court of Berlin-Tiergarten finally lifted the
** In Australia, Hoyts Distribution submitted the film for classification in 1986, but was considered 'highly offensive' and effectively banned for 20 Years, although an unofficial illegal VHS release did appear at retailers in 2000.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $4.5 million. Box office: $8 million.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $4.5 million. Box office: $8 million. (Its box office prospects may well have been hampered by opening just a week after ''Film/TheFly1986'', a major studio horror film that was both a critical success ''and'' notoriously gruesome.)
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* TheOtherMarty: While Bill Johnson is credited as Leatherface, only around 2% of the footage in the final film is his performance, with most of it centering on close-ups of his face. The majority of the final film contains footage by credited stunt double Bob Elmore, who was given an acting contract after Johnson proved unable to lift the chainsaw the way Hooper demanded with Tom Morga playing Leatherface in the bridge scene.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $4.5 million. Box office: $8 million.
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* DeletedScene: Several scenes were deleted by Creator/TobeHooper due to pacing issues. One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects. Another deleted scene also includes the American film critic Joe Bob Briggs. An alternative plot line involving Lefty Enright as Stretch's father was also scrapped. However, these scenes are present on the 2007 Gruesome Edition DVD special features section.
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* DeletedScene: Several scenes were deleted by Creator/TobeHooper due to pacing issues. One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects. Another deleted scene also includes the American film critic Joe Bob Briggs. An alternative plot line involving Lefty Enright as Stretch's father was also scrapped.Briggs complimenting Leatherface on his chainsaw skills before being killed. However, these scenes are present on the 2007 Gruesome Edition DVD special features section.
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John Bloom is the real name of Joe Bob Briggs.
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** Joe Bob Briggs had a deleted cameo as a victim.
** John Bloom was cast, and his name is listed in the closing credits, but his scenes were edited out of the final version.
** Joe Bob Briggs had a deleted cameo as a victim.
** John Bloom was cast, and his name is listed in the closing credits, but his scenes were edited out of the final version.
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**DeletedRole: Joe Bob Briggs had a deleted cameo as a victim.
** John Bloom was cast, and his name is listed in the closing credits, but his scenes were edited out of the final version.victim.
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** John Bloom was cast, and his name is listed in the closing credits, but his scenes were edited out of the final version.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Bill Johnson replaces Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface. Hansen was approached to reprise his role, but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story, claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Bill Johnson replaces Gunnar Hansen Creator/GunnarHansen as Leatherface. Hansen was approached to reprise his role, but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story, claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Gunnar Hansen was approached to reprise his role as Leatherface but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded. Holton didn't believe the average viewer was even aware of the original actors were claiming "who are Neal, Hansen,or Burns?"
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* TheOtherDarrin: Bill Johnson replaces Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface. Hansen was approached to reprise his role as Leatherface role, but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story story, claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded. Holton didn't believe the average viewer was even aware of the original actors were claiming "who are Neal, Hansen,or Burns?"
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* ChannelHop: The film was released by Creator/TheCannonGroup. Along with the rest of the Cannon library, it's currently owned by MGM, except for the broadcast/streaming rights, which are held by Paramount, and home video, which are handled by 20th Century Fox. Shout! Factory also licensed the film for a Blu-ray.
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* DeletedRole: Joe Bob Briggs had a deleted cameo as a victim.
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* DeletedRole: BannedInChina: A release in West Germany in 1986 was not possible because the film was banned before the film could be released to theaters. In 2012 Turbine Medien acquired the rights to the film and started work on getting the banishment revoked. It took them four years until the local court of Berlin-Tiergarten finally lifted the banishment.
* CreatorsFavorite: Bill Moseley has said that his role as Chop-Top is his favorite of his own.
* DeletedRole:
** Joe Bob Briggs had a deleted cameo as avictim.victim.
** John Bloom was cast, and his name is listed in the closing credits, but his scenes were edited out of the final version.
* DeletedScene: Several scenes were deleted by Creator/TobeHooper due to pacing issues. One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects. Another deleted scene also includes the American film critic Joe Bob Briggs. An alternative plot line involving Lefty Enright as Stretch's father was also scrapped. However, these scenes are present on the 2007 Gruesome Edition DVD special features section.
* OldShame: Creator/DennisHopper considered this to be the worst film he ever did.
* TheOtherDarrin: Gunnar Hansen was approached to reprise his role as Leatherface but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded. Holton didn't believe the average viewer was even aware of the original actors were claiming "who are Neal, Hansen,or Burns?"
* SequelGap: The film came out twelve years after the original.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/TobeHooper and Kim Henkel originally had an idea for a sequel that would feature an entire town of cannibals, and also be a satire of the film ''Film/MotelHell'', which itself was a satire of the original film. The title of that sequel was to be ''Beyond The Valley Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'', but the studio forced considerable changes to be made to the screenplay, even hiring a new screenwriter.
** In the original screenplay, Stretch was going to be Lefty Enright's illegitimate daughter.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Bill Moseley has said that his role as Chop-Top is his favorite of his own.
* DeletedRole:
** Joe Bob Briggs had a deleted cameo as a
** John Bloom was cast, and his name is listed in the closing credits, but his scenes were edited out of the final version.
* DeletedScene: Several scenes were deleted by Creator/TobeHooper due to pacing issues. One lengthy scene that was cut from the film involves the Sawyer Clan heading out at night to collect prime meat for their chili by slaughtering movie patrons and a group of rowdy, rioting fans. The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Creator/TomSavini special effects. Another deleted scene also includes the American film critic Joe Bob Briggs. An alternative plot line involving Lefty Enright as Stretch's father was also scrapped. However, these scenes are present on the 2007 Gruesome Edition DVD special features section.
* OldShame: Creator/DennisHopper considered this to be the worst film he ever did.
* TheOtherDarrin: Gunnar Hansen was approached to reprise his role as Leatherface but he claimed to have been offered "scale plus ten percent" with the ten percent going to his agent. When he replied that he had no agent, they offered scale without the additional ten percent. Hansen found the offer too low. Unit publicist Scott Holton offered an alternate story claiming Hansen vacillated about the part and the offer was rescinded. Holton didn't believe the average viewer was even aware of the original actors were claiming "who are Neal, Hansen,or Burns?"
* SequelGap: The film came out twelve years after the original.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/TobeHooper and Kim Henkel originally had an idea for a sequel that would feature an entire town of cannibals, and also be a satire of the film ''Film/MotelHell'', which itself was a satire of the original film. The title of that sequel was to be ''Beyond The Valley Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'', but the studio forced considerable changes to be made to the screenplay, even hiring a new screenwriter.
** In the original screenplay, Stretch was going to be Lefty Enright's illegitimate daughter.
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