* BannedInChina: In the UK, this was one of the 'Video Nasties' and was banned for several years.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** Brazil and Portugal: ''On the Path of Crime''
** France: ''The Bloody Drill''
** Germany: ''The Killer with the Drill''
** Greece: ''The Killer with the Electric Drill''
** Italy: ''The Los Angeles Ripper''
** Mexico: ''Deadly Tools''
* CreatorBacklash:
** Cameron Mitchell "despised" the film, according to the ''Out in the Dark'' book.
** Pamelyn Ferdin, who had been a child star beforehand, never wanted to be an actress and was pushed into it by her StageMom. After completing this film, she told her mother she was done with acting. She never even saw it until she recorded DVD commentary for it in 2002.
* DawsonCasting:
** Laurie is fifteen, and Pamelyn Ferdin had just turned eighteen.
** Kent mentions "school" and is implied to be a classmate of Joey's. Wesley Eure was twenty-seven.
* DivorcedInstallment: The follow-up ''TBK: The Toolbox Murders 2'' morphed into one titled ''Coffin Baby''.
* FollowTheLeader: Producer Tony [=DiDio=] actually admitted the film was only made due to the success of ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre''.
* PlayingAgainstType: Wesley Eure had just come off ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'' and had been typecast as {{Nice Guy}}s for years. He took the role of Kent precisely to go against type [[spoiler: as a rapist and murderer]].
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The sequel, which was in it for several years.
* StarDerailingRole: A deliberate example. Pamelyn Ferdin, who had been pushed into acting by [[StageMom her mother]], had been growing disillusioned with it for years, and took the role specifically to torpedo her "good girl" image as a child star and ensure that she wouldn't have to act again. It worked, and she only had a few small parts afterwards, soon becoming a nurse and later an animal rights activist.
* ThrowItIn: Wesley Eure suggested adding in the bit where Kent runs the Kathy doll under the tap in the sink [[spoiler: right before he kills Vance]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Two other actresses dropped out of the role of Dee Ann due to the nudity and sexual nature of the scenes. Nude model and Penthouse Pet Marianne Walter, best known under her stage name Kelly Nichols, played it in one of her only two mainstream roles.
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