YMMV / Texas Chainsaw 3D

• Bile Fascination: Most people would probably only see this movie to see how awful it is.
• Critic-Proof: The film was torn apart by critics and audiences alike, but it made back more than double its budget.
• Designated Hero: Heather, after 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.
• Designated Villain: The people of the town are portrayed like this for 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.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Kenny. Mainly because he's a genuine Nice Guy among a majorly hateable cast.
  • Drayton Sawyer, mostly for being played by Bill Moseley in a case of Casting Gag.
• Fan Nickname: "Heatherface" for Heather upon The Reveal that she's Leatherface's cousin.
• Heartwarming Moments: Leatherface protecting Heather during her beat down at the hands of Burt Hartman is this in its own, bizarre and twisted way.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Leatherface threatening a carnival patron dressed like Amanda Young in her pig outfit. Just a few years later, the two are both on the roster of the same game.
• Jerkass Woobie: This depiction of Leatherface, considering his predicament.
  • Also Heather, whose Face–Heel Turn is frankly understandable, given the kind of shit she went through. If you consider 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 classic one-liners such as "Welcome to Texas, motherfucker!" (spoken by a non-Texan to a Texan!) and the line used by Heather to 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 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation in terms of a low quality attempt at continuing the original film with obvious poor effects, really bad acting, a rather unlikable and moronic cast of characters and a misguided/illogical story that attempts to make Leatherface the lesser of the two evils.
• Special Effects Failure: The death of 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.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: As the film goes on, 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.

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