• A new widescreen Digital Superscan transfer supervised by Director Tobe Hooper
• New stereo surround soundtrack re-mix supervised by Director Tobe Hooper
• Original mono soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Director Tobe Hooper, Director of Photography Daniel Pearl, and star Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface)
• Deleted scenes and alternate footage
• Blooper reel
• Original theatrical trailers and television spots trailers for other films in the "Chainsaw" series
• Posters and collectibles
• Still photos

Rated:  R

Run Time:  84 Minutes

Cast List

• Filming Location(s):  Austin, Texas, Bastrop, Texas, Round Rock, Texas, and Bagdad Cemetery: Leander, Texas.
• Alternate Tagline(s):  The idyllic summer's day that became a nightmare of fear and blood, It Really Happened.  It's Terrifying.  It's Here, For them, and idyllic summer afternoon became their worst nightmare, Nothing Cuts Like the Original, Can you survive.../...it happened, For five young friends, a typical afternoon drive becomes a terrifying nightmare, What happened is true.  Now the motion picture that's just as real, America's Most Bizarre and Brutal Crimes, and Before Halloween...Before Friday the 13th...Before Scream...There Was the Saw.
• When Sally is being chased by Leatherface through the undergrowth, she actually cuts herself on the branches quite badly.  A lot of the blood on her clothes and body is real.
• When Pam gets hung on the meat hook she was actually held up by a nylon chord that came up between her legs.
• During the "dinner" scene, Leatherface cuts Sally's finger.  However, since the crew couldn't get the fake blood to come out of the tube behind the blade, he really does cut her finger.
• This film wasn't released in Australia until the early 1980s.
• Director Tobe Hooper claims to have gotten the idea for the film standing in a crowded hardware section.  While thinking of a way to get through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.
• When it was first released, people got so horrified, they would actually walk out on sneak previews.
• The chainsaw used in the film was a Poulan 306A.  They covered the Poulan logo with a piece of black tape to avoid any possible lawsuits.
• There was a family still living in the house used in the film.  They rented the house to the film crew and continued to stay there the entire shoot.
• To study up on Leatherface, Gunnar Hansen went to a school for the mentally challenged.  He wanted to see how they moved and talked.
• Leatherface had "lines" in the script.  They were mostly gibberish with little side notes indicating what he was trying to say.
• Leatherface's teeth were prosthesis made especially for Gunnar Hansen by his dentist.
• The effect used when Leatherface cut his leg is simple.  The actor wore a metal plate over his leg, a piece of meat and a blood bag were place on top of that, and then the chainsaw did its thing.
• Hooper used a stunt double when Sally jumps out the window.  However, Marilyn Burns ended up hurting her self shooting the insert for her landing.
• Entertainment Weekly voted this the second scariest film ever made.
• There was originally a two week filming schedule.  Ultimately it took four weeks to film.
• Despite the title, only one person in the film is killed with a chainsaw.

Goofs

• The blood the hitchhiker smears on the van is gone in the long shot a few seconds later.
• When the van pulls into the service station, the cook comes out.  On the door there is a red open sign, later it's gone.

Personal History

• Watched this film at a friend's house one time.  During the chase through the woods (Between Leatherface and Sally) someone started up a chainsaw outside the window I was sitting by.  I nearly shat myself.
• Watched this film with my brother and my dad.  Half way through the film, both of them left the room because they didn't like it (Blasphemy).