History Film / TexasChainsaw3D

* ArcWords: "Can't get around the Good Book"

* IronicEcho: "Can't get around the Good Book."

* TownWithADarkSecret: For sure.

* ViewersAreMorons: The newspaper in which Heather catches up on the story of the Swayers is dated August 19th, which is the date the events occurred. Apparently, the filmmakers didn't think we'd make the connection if the paper had been correctly dated August 20th (since newspapers can't print news before it happens).

*** The date of death on all the Sawyer tombstones conveniently have the year obscured and everyone seems to be going out of their way to not mention what year "August 19th" was, except from one incredibly brief moment on the police record (which also screwed up listing it as "August 18th"). So, there's a degree of AssPull trying to make it seem like the first movie take place more recently than it obviously was.

* {{Fanservice}}: Plenty of MaleGaze is given to [[MsFanservice Nikki's]] assets, and half of her screen-time is spent in skympy clothing or otherwise half-naked, and she is also rather flirty. [[MrFanservice Ryan]] also gets to demonstrate his muscled physique in a lot of scenes.

%%* IdiotBall: The movie is filled with them. Where to start?

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Heather makes bone sculptures without realizing she is a Sawyer.

* MythologyGag: The second film is ignored, though the names Sawyer and Drayton (introduced in it) are used.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Heather's age seems to be off by ''two decades''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Hartman's son disappears from the movie after helping him capture Heather as she's a Sawyer, and [[KarmaHoudini is not shown to have faced any comeuppance]]]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Hartman's son disappears from the movie after helping him capture Heather as she's a Sawyer, and KarmaHoudini is not shown to have faced any comeuppance]].

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse: [[spoiler: Hartman's son disappears from the movie after helping him capture Heather as she's a Sawyer, and KarmaHoudini is not shown to have faced any comeuppance]].

* {{Unreboot}}: Follows the original movie instead of the remake and [[Canon discontinuity ignores any other sequels]].

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Almost all the characters are either antagonists or assholes who have it coming. Heather was the most decent character in the film alive by the end, [[spoiler:but by then she has gone through a FaceHeelTurn.]]

** Gunnar Hansen who played Leatherface in the original film has a cameo as "Boss Sawyer". Bill Moseley, known mainly to horror fans as 'Chop-Top' from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'' and Otis B. Driftwood from ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'', is Drayton Sawyer.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Leatherface's chainsaws can cut through pretty much everything. Including but not limited to A car's carcass and a thick metal chain.

** Actually, the dates on the tombstones explicitly set this film in 2012. This trope still applies unless we're supposed to believe that Heather is [[OlderThanSheLooks at least 39 years old]]. And even then, there's the many characters who haven't aged a day since August 19, 1973.
*** It should be noted that the date of death on all the Sawyer tombstones conveniently have the year obscured and everyone seems to be going out of their way to not mention what year "August 19th" was, except from one incredibly brief moment on the police record (which also screwed up listing it as "August 18th"). So, there's a degree of AssPull trying to make it seem like the first movie take place more recently than it obviously was.

* DespairEventHorizon: Part of what figures in [[spoiler:Heather's FaceHeelTurn: She hast lost all of her friends, her adoptive parents are abusive assholes, her other family is entirely dead (minus Leatherface), and the entire town is hellbent on murdering her for ''no actual reason'']]. She pretty much breaks under the pressure.

** FanDisservice: Heather is nearly topless in a few scenes, but most of those scenes are in a slaughterhouse, surrounded by psychotic lunatics, and covered in dirt.

* {{Gorn}}: The entire film is basically a shameless bloodbath.

A prequel called ''Film/{{Leatherface}}'' is in the works which will delve into Leatherface's life during his late teens.

* Dark Is Not Evil: Heather is a member of the Sawyer clan and wears predominantly black, but is the heroine of the story and to an extent, Leatherface, who has a face mask made of human skin, but is simply protecting the Sawyer house and later is revealed to be the closest thing Heather has to a family member.

* Light Is Not Good: Burt Hartman looks like a decent sheriff, but is revealed to be a corrupt sherrif who tries to kill Heather upon learning she is related to the Sawyer clan.

'''''Texas Chainsaw 3D''''' is a 2013 sequel to [[Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974 the 1974 film]], and it is in no way connected to [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003 the remake]].

** [[spoiler:Deputy Carl Hartman. At first he tries to befriend Heather, but eventually he ends up turning out to be just as cruel as his father Butch, and he tries to get her killed]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Butch Hartman gets HoistByHisOwnPetard [[spoiler:when he is dragged into a meat grinder by a chain, a fate he was going to give to Leatherface]].

** "Welcome to Texas, motherfucker!"

A prequel is in the works which will delve into Leatherface's life during his late teens.

* ThreeDMovie

* IdiotBall: The movie is filled with them. Where to start?

* ContinuitySnarl: The film is set in 2012 and is a direct sequel to the original. Heather should be close to 40 and Leatherface should be in his 60s, yet they're played by, respectively, 26-year-old Alexandra Daddario and the middle-aged Dan Yeager. This would just be an example of PlayingGertrude if not for the fact that Heather herself is portrayed as a young adult.

** A chainsaw-wielding man dressed as [[Film/{{Saw}} Jigsaw]]

* TheInnerReveal: The audience is fully aware that Heather is related to Leatherface.