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This movie, Norman Bates in "Psycho", and Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs", were all based on one man, Eddie Gein. He was from Plainfield, Wisconsin (USA), and was caught November 17, 1957. He confessed to killing 2 women, robbing 8 graves, and was found guilty. It was later overturned "by reason of insanity". He was sentenced to an asylum where he died of cancer. [These characters were based on a combanation of people. Gein was one of them but not the only one.]
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When they stop at the side of the road where the girl is walking, the car stops right beside her, but in the next shot the car is a couple of feet away. [No, they swerve to miss her and slam on the brakes. No vehicle can come to a dead stop immediately, plus they were on a dirt road so they slid further from her before they actually stopped. There is never a shot showing them stopping right next to her.]
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When the girl shoots herself her body is still sitting upright in the backseat, but when the van hits a bump in the road and the body falls onto its side. When the van stops in the next shot the body is sitting back up again without anyone moving it. [This is not one continuing shot; they could very easily have put her back in the upright position during the time that's not shown.]
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In the scene where Leatherface is chasing the blonde guy through the yard, through all the sheets, he cuts his leg off with the chainsaw. Seconds later, he's carrying the blonde guy on his shoulders and into the house. Watch as he's walking down the hallway, not a single drop of blood drips from the severed leg onto the floor. Several arteries and many veins run through the leg and not a single drop of blood? Blood should be gushing or at least dripping a lot from the stub that's left of the leg. [Blood won't necessarily gush from an amputation. It's called a traumatic amputation which causes vasospasm which constricts all vessels, thus no blood flow.]
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On the DVD, you can see some sort of equipment. It happens after the sheriff takes the body and Pepper says, "Do you think we should clean it out for him?" Then the blond guy says, "Sure, be my guest." You can see something in the top left corner of the screen. It looks almost like a feather duster end, but it is probably a microphone. [It is not a microphone nor a feather duster, it is something that the van has since the beginning of the movie, best seen before the girl shoots herself.]
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In the scene with the hitch-hiker, it appears that the girl is walking in the same direction as the town, which is somewhat at odds with her comments of "I gotta get away", "I wanna go home" and "I won't go back there". She should be walking the opposite direction in order to get away from Leatherface and company. [I think it's pretty safe to say that she would be lost and disoriented after what she went through and she probably had no idea which direction she was going, since she didn't have her little "episode" until she saw the sign that said they were headed back to town.]
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When the Sheriff is wrapping up the body, why doesn't he recognize the girl? [why would he admit to knowing someone who just freaked out and shot herself, even if he had a good story for knowing her she would have went to him not only because he is the only sheriff but because his story would make it seem like they were friends.]
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After Erin escapes, how does "Leatherface" start his chainsaw up with only one arm? He struggled enough to start it with both arms. [It is possible to start a chainsaw by stepping on it with both feet and pulling the cord.]
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When the kids are going down the road in the van and almost hit the girl that is walking, she is going in the same direction as them. But after they pick her up and they continue on their way (the same direction that they were going to begin with) she says they are going in the wrong direction and need to turn around. But if they are going in the wrong direction then why was she going the same direction as them instead of going the opposite way as them on the road. [Perhaps the reason the girl does not tell them they are going the wrong way is because she is in complete and utter shock of what she has just been through and is grateful to be picked up.]
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When the blond guy has his leg cut off he runs through the garden with shoes on, and when he is carried back to the house his shoe (on his remaining leg) is still on. When you see him in the basement of the house there is his bare foot right in front of the screen. Hardly a subtle mistake. [It possible that his shoes may have been removed by this point.]
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They cuss WAY to much in this movie for the time. This is set in '73, I would understand a curse word here and there, but nobody ever cussed as much as they did back then. [Is there some meter that says people didn't cuss then as much as they do now? People have been using coloful language since language was created. Just because you didn't hear any cussing in 1973, doesn't mean no one cussed. It's all about what environment you were in. To say that the whole world used less bawdy language in the past is just another "myth" about how things are always better in the past. Bah. Growing up in the 70's and 80's the language I heard from the people around me was a lot worse than it is today.]
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In the film, where they are driving along the highway, they play the song "Sweet Home Alabama", which didn't come out until 1974. The film is set in the summer of 1973. [The song was actually made before 1973. If you have seen Forest Gump, your hear the song when he is Vietnam, which was before 1973.]
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After the girl has shot herself in the head, the hole in the window is a circular shape, yet in the shot where they drive off after Pepper says she will never get back in the van, the hole in the window is an irregular shape. [Some of the pieces of glass that were barely hanging on fell off as the van drove off, making the hole irregular.]
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There isn't a wheelchair ramp for the old guy at the house. In the scene where Jessica Biel and her friend without the glasses go looking for her boyfriend, the old man is on the ground outside while Jessica Biel is distracting him. After Biel goes into the house, the old man gets inside with his wheelchair pretty easily considering that he has no legs, there is no ramp, and he is still on his wheelchair. [Actually, there is a ramp. Its off to the side, and Andy uses it to go into the house to look for Kemper.]
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In the scene when Erin is in the Hewitt's basement and she finds Andy, he appears to be supporting himself with his arms. The hook he is on is not visible as it is behind him, but she somehow knows it is there, and tries to help him off it immediately. [There were a lot of other hooks in the room so she would've seen one of them and assumed that he was on one.]
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At the start, one of the couples is in the back. Kissing and what not. The nerd guy with glasses goes on about AIDS and STD's but this film is supposed to be set in 1973. It was many years later when these facts were found out. [He never mentions anything about AIDS specifically, and STD's were well known in those days and were a serious issue.]
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At the beginning of the movie, when the group is in the van messing around with the pot-filled pinata, it breaks on the floor and spills the drugs. A scene or two later, when Kemper throws it out into the field, the pinata is intact and the drugs are still inside. [The pinata does not actually break, it only opens up, allowing the pot to fall out. One of the guys is shown picking it all up very quickly, presumably to place it back in the pinata.]
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Why would Leatherface attack the police car at the end of the movie? He knows that it belongs to R. Lee Ermy. [Since Leatherface was standing down the road, it is also very likely that he would have seen R. Lee Ermy run over multiple times by that car. Even if he couldn't tell it was Jessica Biel in the car, he would still attack the person that had just killed a member of his family.]
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We eventually find out that the girl at the beginning of the movie gave birth, and the family stole the baby for themselves. However, when she is first picked up, it is clear she had just given birth within the past 24 hours, and when we see the baby, it is certainly too old to be a newborn. [The baby is not a newborn. The blood between the womans legs is not from giving birth but from some attack or outside interference. The baby is seen in the picture they find in the car with his mother, making it very possible.]
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When they pick up the girl who later shoots herself, they start driving toward Leatherface's home, the girl goes berserk, and kills herself so she won't have to go back there, yet earlier she was walking in the same direction. [The reason she is walking back toward the same way is because she doesn't know where she is going. It is a farm area and she can't tell what way is which. This can be seen also when Jessica Biel's character is trying to escape Leatherface. She starts walking back to the store and catches a ride. No one can tell which way is which, especially in a deserted area like that.]
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