This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
- Director 'Tobe Hooper' (qv) based Leatherface on mass-murderer
'Ed Gein' (qv), who was arrested when he was young.
- 'Marilyn Burns' (qv), whose character was chased by Leatherface through the
undergrowth actually cut herself on the branches quite badly, so a lot of the
blood on her body and clothes is real.
- The actor whose character was hung up on a meat hook was actually held up
by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.
- CAMEO(John Laroquette): narrator
 
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