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• Anachronisms: The young group is listening to "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the van at the beginning of the film. The film takes place between 18 and 20 August 1973. The song was not released until 1974, featured on the band's album, "Second Helping".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene when Jedidia is helping Erin and Morgan escape the basement, you can see Erin climb the last four steps that lead outside. Then the camera cuts to Jedidia biting leather face on the hand. Then the camera cuts back again and we see Erin climbing back up those same four steps again.
  
  
• Continuity: Leatherface's chainsaw is Husqvarna 359, which has a chain break on it. It is taken off in the movie to make it look like it was from that time period because they didn't have them on around then. However, after the first chase scene you can see Leatherface cutting trees with a chain break on it.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Near the beginning of the movie, while the van full of teenagers is driving along the highway, there is a long shot of the van. In that shot, the van is visibly empty of any occupants other than the driver.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, when the kids are driving in the van and they hit a bump, the body of the dead girl falls over onto the floor of the van, yet when they stop at the mill, the body is seen sitting up in the back of the van.
  
  
• Continuity: In a shot of the police car after Sheriff Hoyt drives off with Morgan, Morgan disappears while passing the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the beginning of the movie (just after picking up the hitchhiker) the series of close-ups reveals a residential neighborhood passing by the window.
  
  
• Continuity: When leaving the gas station to go to the mill to meet the sheriff, the newspaper over the dead girl's head disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Leatherface first begins to chase Erin and Andy inside the house and Andy turns aside the chainsaw with the tire iron, we see the saw from below and it is cutting length-wise through the floor boards. When we see the same shot from above the saw is cutting across the width of the boards.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sheriff Hoyt climbs into the van to begin wrapping the dead hitchhiker's body with the plastic he begins wrapping the head first. Moments later, he is still wrapping the head but her whole body is already wrapped.
  
  
• Continuity: The back door of the van is halfway open for one shot when the van is driving by a fence near the beginning, but fully closed for the rest of the time.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Leatherface starts to attack Erin and Pepper in the van, Pepper enters the van and does not shut the door. When she exits the van to get away from Leatherface, she has to open the door to get out.
  
  
• Continuity: When Erin kills back over Sheriff Hoyt, and turns on the window wipers to wipe off the blood, the windshield is free of blood the shot before.
  
  
• Continuity: Erin's shirt is tied in a knot for the entire movie. However, twice the shirt is not knotted...when running to the closet in the second house her shirt flops around but is again tied as soon as she is sitting with the rats. It is again loose as she runs outside in the rain by the meat factory - tied as she is sitting in the truck.
  
  
• Continuity: When the sheriff is saran-wrapping the dead girl in the van, the roll of wrap jumps in and out of the box between shots..
  
  
• Anachronisms: Leatherface's chainsaw is a recent model Husqvarna, possibly a 359XP...but certainly not a model that was available in 1973.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Leatherface is carrying Andy on his shoulder down the stairs to the basement, you can see the bill of someone's baseball hat to the right of the screen for a second as soon as the shot of the basement from the bottom of the stairs
  
  
• Factual errors: While Leatherface sits and sews his skin mask, he is not really sewing. The hand wheel on the right of the machine does not turn. A sewing machine's hand wheel has to move if the needle moves, as they are synchronized.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the Sheriff is holding the drivers licenses of the three characters who are laying on the ground, what appears to be their date of birth is shown to be the same on all three, 3-11-92. Also, even though they are supposedly from three different states, the printing and information on the licenses are identical. They show the same address, "37218 N. A..." (you cannot see any more of the street name), and you see what appears to be "District Of..." on the bottom line where the state would be. This would mean they all live together and are from Washington, District of Columbia.
  
  
• Plot holes: When the Sheriff has the three characters prone in the dirt, he has their drivers licenses in his hand. As he starts to toss them down, the second license clearly states that it is an Arizona license. All three of the licenses are identical except for the picture. As he throws them down to them, he calls out the states of each of the owners. He first says "Arizona", although that is the second license, not the first one. He then says "Colorado" as he tosses down the Arizona license and finally says "New York" for the third.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When turning to go to the mill, a round-bale of hay is seen in the field. The bale is bound with netwrap. In 1973, the only possible binding would have been twine.
  
  
• Continuity: When the hitchhiker commits suicide, her blood splatters on a green, hula girl ornament up front in the van. Earlier, there was a different looking hula girl ornament there.
  
  
• Continuity: Jessica Biel's character clearly cuts off Leatherfaces right arm, but at the end while she is driving away with the baby he is holding the chainsaw with his right arm, while his left arm is missing.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Erin kills back over Sheriff Hoyt, and turns on the window wipers to wipe off the blood, the windshield is free of blood the shot before.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: After the hitchhiker commits suicide, and all the characters exit the van, the front passenger door is left open. Kemper is shown standing next to the open door, with his hands on his head. The camera cuts to Morgan for a moment, and then back to Kemper, who is in the same position, yet the door is closed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: After the hitchhiker commits suicide, blood splatters all over the window, yet when they all get out of the van there is no visible blood on the back window.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: As the Sheriff falls to the ground after being struck and thrown over the police car, he very obviously ends up face down on the pavement. In the next wide scene, as you see the car start to back up, he is motionless and still face down. There is a cut to a close-up, and the Sheriff is now laying on his back as he starts to get up, without ever having turned over.
  
  

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