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* AbandonedArea: Where the entire movie takes place, and where the Hewitts live. It apparently used to be a fairly active town once, as the Hewitt's "hunting ground" includes both an abandoned mill and a slaughterhouse.

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* AbandonedArea: Where the entire movie takes place, and where the Hewitts live. It apparently used to be a fairly active town once, as the Hewitt's "hunting ground" includes both an abandoned mill and a slaughterhouse.slaughterhouse (the Prequel reveals Leatherface was born in the slaughterhouse when it was still active).
* AdaptedOut: The entire Hewitt family got an overhaul for this movie - aside from Leatherface, all the other characters are replaced with new ones, though a character called The Cook, based on Sawyer Hewitt from the original, does appear in the comic expansion by ''Wildstorm''.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: It's not entirerly clear how Jededeiah is related to the rest of the Hewitts, though he's generally treated as a grandson. WordOfGod states that he might have been the child of one of the Hewitts previous victims that the deranged family decided to spare and raise as their own.



* CannibalClan: The Hewitts, as usual, feeding on whatever hapless travellers are unlucky enough to stray into the area. Hoyt uses his authority to flag down victims.
* CannibalLarder: The old farmhouse the Hewitts live in has both a kitchen full of preserved human remains, and a "butchershop" for Leatherface to practice his monstrous trade in.



* EvilCripple: Monty is an amputee with both his legs as mere stumps.

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* EvilCripple: Monty is an amputee with both his legs as mere stumps. The Prequel, novelization and comic book series differ on how he lost them.

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Five youths driving through Texas run afoul of family of deranged maniacs named the Hewitts, including its sadistic patron Sheriff Hoyt and the disfigured butcher named Leatherface.

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Five youths driving On August 18th, 1973, five teenagers are on a road trip through Texas run afoul of family of deranged maniacs named the Hewitts, rural Texas, including its sadistic patron Sheriff Hoyt Erin, her boyfriend Kemper, and their friends Andy, Morgan and Pepper, on their way back from a concert in Mexico. The trip takes a terrifying turn when the group stumbles across a severly traumatized young woman stumbling down the road, who committs suicide with a hidden handgun in their van after incoherently muttering about her suffering at the hands of "a bad man". Looking for help, the group soon find themselves caught in their own nightmare as they uncover the horrific secrets of the rural area and the disfigured butcher named Leatherface.
atrocities committed by the monstrous Hewitt family...



* AbandonedArea: Where the entire movie takes place, and where the Hewitts live.
* AnArmAndALeg: Erin chops off Leatherface's arm during the chase through the sluaghter house.

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* AbandonedArea: Where the entire movie takes place, and where the Hewitts live.
live. It apparently used to be a fairly active town once, as the Hewitt's "hunting ground" includes both an abandoned mill and a slaughterhouse.
* AnArmAndALeg: Erin chops off Leatherface's arm during the chase through the sluaghter house.slaughterhouse. [[ImplacableMan It barely even slows him down.]]



* CreepyChild: Jedidiah.

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* CreepyChild: Jedidiah. Thankfully, he turns out to be the only member of the Hewitt family who isn't a monster.



* DrivenToSuicide: The hitchhiker, who was the FinalGirl of [[HeroOfAnotherStory another story]], decides to take the easy way out rather than go a second round with the Hewitt's.

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* DrivenToSuicide: The hitchhiker, who was the FinalGirl of [[HeroOfAnotherStory another story]], decides to take the easy way out is so traumatized by whatever fate befell her and her family that she kills herself rather than go a second round with risk running into the Hewitt's.Hewitts again.


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* EvilMatriarch: Luda Mae Hewitt, the mother of Hoyt and Leatherface (adopted), and the leader of the family, though her sons provide most of the muscle.
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* ApocalypticLog: The police tape shown at the start of the film is revealed to be one of these when [[OnceMoreWithClarity it plays in full at the end, and the officers filming the tape are attacked by Leatherface.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and Everything else seems to be darker than the Original and it's Sequels. Although the Original had a Rather Dark Tone to begin with.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills original was already a bleak, grimy movie, but this take on the story increases the explicit gore and Everything else seems to be torture... as well as being quite literally ''much'' darker than the Original and it's Sequels. Although the Original had a Rather Dark Tone to begin with.sun-soaked original.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and Everything else seems to be darker than the Original. And the Original was already dark too......

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and Everything else seems to be darker than the Original. And Original and it's Sequels. Although the Original was already dark too......had a Rather Dark Tone to begin with.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and everything else seems to be darker than the Original. And the Original was already dark too......

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and everything Everything else seems to be darker than the Original. And the Original was already dark too......
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and everything else seems to be much darker than the Original. And the Original was already dark too

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and everything else seems to be much darker than the Original. And the Original was already dark tootoo......
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Atmosphere, The Kills and everything else seems to be much darker than the Original. And the Original was already dark too
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Erin cripples Leatherface, rescues an abducted baby, kills Sheriff Hoyts, and lives to report the Hewitts' crimes to the authorities. However, all of her friends are dead, she's mentally damaged by the experience, and Leatherface is still at large]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Erin cripples Leatherface, rescues an abducted baby, kills Sheriff Hoyts, Hoyt, and lives to report the Hewitts' crimes to the authorities. However, all of her friends are dead, she's mentally damaged by the experience, and Leatherface is still at large]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Erin cripples Leatherface, rescues an abducted baby, kills Sheriff Hoyts, and lives to report the Hewitts' crimes to the authorities. However, all of her friends are dead, she's mentally damaged by the experience, and Leatherface is still at large]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: Erin chops off Leatherface's arm during the chase through the sluaghter house.

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* NotHisSled: Like the original, the film opens with the main characters picking up a hitchhiker on the side of the road. He's a creepy guy who antagonizes them, gets kicked out, and later turns out to be one of the cannibals, right? [[spoiler: Nope- ''she's'' a traumatized escaped victim of the clan, who breaks down and shoots herself in the head.]]

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* NotHisSled: NotHisSled:
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Like the original, the film opens with the main characters picking up a hitchhiker on the side of the road. He's a creepy guy who antagonizes them, gets kicked out, and later turns out to be one of the cannibals, right? [[spoiler: Nope- ''she's'' a traumatized escaped victim of the clan, who breaks down and shoots herself in the head.]]
** The one scene this movie just needs to have is an adaptation of the famous "dinner scene", right? [[spoiler:Again, nope. The FinalGirl is never taken by Leatherface or any of the Hewitts, and the climax takes place in a meat factory instead.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Sheriff Hoyt is pretty much one of Creator/RLeeErmey's usual DrillSergeantNasty roles turned UpToEleven, with some sadism sprinkled in.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Sheriff Hoyt is pretty much one of Creator/RLeeErmey's usual DrillSergeantNasty roles turned UpToEleven, up to eleven, with some sadism sprinkled in.
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Random reference to reviewer and complaining in the lead.


Creator/RogerEbert was [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2003 not a fan]] of this film. A {{Prequel}} was [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacreTheBeginning released in 2006]].

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Creator/RogerEbert was [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2003 not a fan]] of this film. A {{Prequel}} was [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacreTheBeginning released in 2006]].
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* TrouserSpace: [[spoiler:The hitchhiker pulls a gun from her crotch and blows her brains out]].

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* AnachronismStew: A minor example. In the opening scene, the characters are listening to "Sweet Home Alabama", even though the film is set in 1973 and the song wasn't released until 1974.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Sheriff Hoyt]].

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* AnachronismStew: A minor example. ArtisticLicenseHistory: In the opening scene, the characters are listening to "Sweet Home Alabama", even though the film is set in 1973 and the song wasn't released until 1974.
* AssholeVictim: AssholeVictim:
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[[spoiler: Sheriff Hoyt]].



* TheCameo: Harry Jay Knowles shows up as a severed head in the Hewitts' basement.

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* TheCameo: TheCameo:
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Harry Jay Knowles shows up as a severed head in the Hewitts' basement.



* MsFanservice: Jessica Biel in a wet tanktop.

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* MsFanservice: MsFanservice:
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Jessica Biel in a wet tanktop.



* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Hewitt family member Jedidiah was originally supposed to be killed by Leatherface for helping Erin and Morgan escape, but the scene was scrapped for being "too intense".]]

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: RedemptionEqualsDeath:
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[[spoiler: Hewitt family member Jedidiah was originally supposed to be killed by Leatherface for helping Erin and Morgan escape, but the scene was scrapped for being "too intense".]]

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