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New Line picked up the rights to the series, hoping that if successful, Leatherface would replace their soon to be completed "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series. The box-office disappointment of this film caused New Line to let their option on the material expire.
The trailer was done before they even had a director and before the production started.
Kane Hodder - whose best-known role is that of another horror icon, Jason Voorhees - was the stunt coordinator for this movie. He was also R.A. Mihailoff's stunt double, and played Leatherface in the trailer. Hodder also donned Freddy Krueger's iconic bladed glove for a scene in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993).
Director Jeff Burr was fired at the beginning of production. When nobody else accepted the job, he was rehired.
The original script was much more brutal with explicit gore sequences. The producers objected to many of the scenes (one of which had a nude man being split down the middle while hung upside down) and demanded extensive changes to the script to reduce gore and violence. Further cuts had to be made to avoid an X-rating after the film was finished. It was submitted 11 times to the MPAA. On each submission, more and more footage was cut out, some of which was lost forever. This was the final movie to be given an "X" certificate by the MPAA before the rating was replaced with "NC-17".
Director Jeff Burr wanted to shoot the film in Texas using 16 mm film just like the original, but New Line rejected the idea because they had already built the house in California. The ranch where most of the filming was done is so close to the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park that Burr swears you can hear screams from the rollercoaster during some takes.
William Butler and Jennifer Banko were both in Friday The 13th 7: The New Blood.
Caroline Williams reprises her role as Stretch from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) in a cameo as a news reporter. Director Jeff Burr said he imagined Stretch becoming a reporter following the trauma she experienced in the second movie in an attempt to hunt down Leatherface.
Originally, Benny and Leatherface both succumbed to their injuries at the end of the movie, but New Line decided to shoot a new ending with editor Michael N. Knue in which both characters survive. Jeff Burr was very surprised when he saw the movie in the cinema for the first time; the new ending was shot without his knowledge.
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