* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $2,000,000. Box office, $5,765,562.
* BTeamSequel: Creator/TobeHooper was originally going to be involved in the film. He had submitted a treatment to New Line execs, but bowed out of the project due to scheduling conflicts concerning his film ''Film/SpontaneousCombustion''.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The movie was shot outside of Los Angeles.
* ChannelHop: The film was released by Creator/NewLineCinema, and is now owned by Creator/WarnerBros. Warner Archive released the film on Blu-ray.
* ChristmasRushed: The film began production in August 1989 in order to make a November 3rd release date (trailers shot before the film was were shipped out with that date before prints of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild''). Despite finishing production just days before the original date, issues with the MPAA forced a delay to January 1990 and the film flopped due to said delays and the cuts to get an R rating being very obvious.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original script was much more brutal with explicit gore sequences. The producers objected to many of the scenes (one of which had a nude man being split down the middle while hung upside down) and demanded extensive changes to the script to reduce gore and violence. Further cuts had to be made to avoid an X-rating after the film was finished.
** Originally, Benny and Leatherface both succumbed to their injuries at the end of the movie, but New Line decided to shoot a new ending with editor Michael N. Knue in which both characters survive. Jeff Burr was very surprised when he saw the movie in the cinema for the first time; the new ending was shot without his knowledge.
* FocusGroupEnding: The original ending was reshot to give the film a more optimistic ending. [[spoiler:Benny improbably survives having his head shoved into Leatherface's chainsaw thanks to this.]]
* MissingTrailerScene: The teaser trailer functionally has nothing to do with the film, and was shot specifically for marketing purposes before the film had even entered production. The trailer shows a figure (Leatherface) facing away from the camera, out towards a lake, while calm music plays and a narrator states, "Some tales are told, and soon forgotten. But a legend, is forever." After this, in a spoof on ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', a female hand raises a chainsaw out from under the water, then throws it into the air, at which point Leatherface catches it, a bolt of lightning strikes the chainsaw, and he snaps around to face the camera before the image freezes.
* TheOtherDarrin: Director Jeff Burr wanted Creator/GunnarHansen to return to the role of Leatherface, but neither party could come to an agreement on financial remuneration. Burr eventually settled on R.A. Mihailoff, replacing Bill Johnson from the last film.
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Originally slated for a November 3rd, 1989 release, the release date was soon pushed to January 12th of the following year.
* SparedByTheCut: [[spoiler: Benny and Leatherface died in the original ending but both inexplicably survive in the reshot ending for the theatrical cut.]]
* StillbornFranchise: Creator/NewLineCinema meant to kick start a new series of Leatherface centered ''Chainsaw'' films after this in the hopes of recreating the success they had with '' Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet '', but the film's box office failure cut those plans short.
* ThrowItIn: While filming the fight scene between Benny and Tex at the truck, Ken Foree accidentally broke Creator/ViggoMortensen's ribs. The shot was seemingly left in the movie (you can see Mortensen suddenly clutch after being thrown to the ground).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/TomSavini was offered the job of directing this film. Creator/PeterJackson was also considered for the job.
** In the original script, Sara and Gina were lovers, rather than sisters.
* WordOfGay: According to Creator/ViggoMortensen, this is how he played Tex.
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