The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Continuity mistake: When Darla arrives home, as she is walking indoors with the pizzas, the pizza boxes rotate in her hands a few times, evident by the large "pizza" printed on one side of the box. (00:47:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Darla is telling her blonde joke to Jenny and Heather in her trailer, in the wideshot her hands are on her desk but in the closeup her arms are up by her face. (00:12:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenny is in Vilmer's truck and he is talking to her and scaring her, during the whole scene in the truck, Jenny's hair is inconsistent throughtout. Sometimes it is messy, then neater and her fringe constantly changes position. (00:33:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: W.E brings a big part of a door into the kitchen and says "look at what your brother did to this door," and then he places it down so it leans up against the other door. Then moments later the big section of the door is now lying on the floor. It is leaning back up again a few seconds later. (00:49:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenny is in the car with Vilmer, there is a radio speaker hanging on a wire next to her. When she says "What's gonna happen to me," between shots the radio speaker disappears from the end of the wire. (00:33:35)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenny jumps through a window to get away from Leatherface, the window next to the window she jumps through is closed. Seconds later it is open. (00:37:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Leatherface is chasing Heather, he breaks through the door, and a large portion of the door breaks out and falls to the floor. But in the next shot, the same part of the door that fell out is still broke off, but is now half hanging from the door and then falls off again. (00:26:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Leatherface chases Jenny on the roof, he starts knocking bricks off of the chimney with his chainsaw. Some bricks that fall off the chimney reappear back on it in the next shot. (00:38:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: After the car crash, Barry kneels down to check the man's pulse. In the next shot Barry is nowhere near the man, but in the next shot he is still checking his pulse. (00:08:40)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the car crash, the man is wearing a black shirt in the wide shot, but a white shirt in the close-up. (00:08:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Vilmer lights the girl's back on fire as she's passed out at the table, she gets up and starts stumbling towards a wall covered in keys. As she stands up, there is no visible fire on her back. In the next shot as she is up against the wall, her back is on fire again. (01:06:25)

Daniel Garner

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Vilmer is standing on Darla's throat, we see her laying across the floor horizontally away from him, but in the next shot, we see that she is laying vertically to him.

Continuity mistake: Between shots from when Vilmer leaves the kitchen (and throws the big broken part of door at the wall) and then when W.E leaves the kitchen seconds later, the trash over the hallway floor and the kitchen floor (cardboard, wood, paper) drastically differs position and location, and additional trash appears too. (00:50:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenny runs upstairs and notices the police officer in the corner of the room, how wide open the door is changes between shots. (00:37:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenny is hiding in the trees all out of breath, after Vilmer drives off in his truck, the left shoulder strap of Jenny's prom dress is up on her shoulder but then in the next shot it has fallen down her arm. In the following shot it is back on her shoulder! Also there is a flowery corsage on her dress which is on top of a bow which is part of the dress; but in the next shot the corsage is under the bow, then back to being on the bow in the final shot. (00:35:30)

Hamster

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Heather: Barry, I saw you, you were kissing her.
Barry: Once, I kissed her once! God, it's like I can't talk to my friends anymore, I can't believe how posessive you are.
Heather: Oh right, I guess that's why you were feeling her up?
Barry: Look, guys need sex. It's bad for you if you get all worked up and then not get it, you can get "prostrate" cancer. Is that what you want?

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