* BileFascination: Most people would probably only see this movie to see how awful it is.
* CriticProof: The film was torn apart by critics and audiences alike, but it made back more than double its budget.
* DesignatedHero: Heather, after [[spoiler: she sides with the Sawyer family, whom she knows nothing about except that they like to kill and eat people on a regular basis. She actively tries to help save Leatherface despite him slaughtering countless innocents, including her friends and boyfriend, and the audience is to believe she's doing the right thing.]]
* DesignatedVillain: The people of the town are portrayed like this for [[spoiler: burning down and murdering the Sawyer family, regardless of the fact that the Sawyer family is made up of cannibalistic and sadistic monsters, but Leatherface and Heather are played as the Lesser of two Evils. This is helped by the fact that until the end, Heather was an innocent victim who had nothing to do with her family's crimes.]]
* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** Kenny. Mainly because he's a genuine NiceGuy among a majorly hateable cast.
** Drayton Sawyer, mostly for being played by Bill Moseley in a case of CastingGag.
* FanNickname: [[spoiler:"Heatherface"]] for Heather upon TheReveal that [[spoiler:she's Leatherface's cousin]].
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Leatherface protecting [[spoiler:Heather]] during her beat down at the hands of [[spoiler:Burt Hartman]] is this in its own, bizarre and twisted way.
* HilariousInHindsight: Leatherface threatening a carnival patron dressed like [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Amanda Young in her pig outfit.]] Just a few years later, [[VideoGame/DeadByDaylight the two are both on the roster of the same game.]]
* JerkassWoobie: This depiction of Leatherface, considering his predicament.
** Also [[spoiler:Heather]], whose FaceHeelTurn is frankly understandable, given the kind of shit she went through. If you consider [[DesignatedHero siding with a cannibalistic serial killer for the sake of petty vengeance despite the fact that he just murdered all of your friends in front of you and also tried to murder you]] understandable, that is.
* {{Narm}}: This film gives us [[SarcasmMode classic]] one-liners such as "Welcome to Texas, motherfucker!" (spoken by a non-Texan to a Texan!) and the line used by Heather to [[spoiler:seemingly symbolize her embracing her Sawyer blood ties: "Do your thing, cuz!" (yes, "cuz" as in "cousin").]]
* {{Sequelitis}}: This film is usually ranked on par with ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration'' in terms of a low quality attempt at continuing the original film with [[SpecialEffectsFailure obvious poor effects]], [[{{Narm}} really bad acting]], a rather [[TooBleakStoppedCaring unlikable and moronic cast of characters]] and a misguided/illogical story that attempts to make Leatherface the lesser of the two evils.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The death of [[spoiler: Burt Hartman]] is ''horrendously'' animated and incomplete, to the point one has to wonder who thought keeping it in the movie was a good idea.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: As the film goes on, [[spoiler: the only good characters either die or turn evil, to the point where there are no more moral characters. As a result, when the climax comes, we don't know who we're supposed to be rooting for, or more importantly, why.]]
%%* TheWoobie: Poor Kenny.
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