Trivia: After the girl kills herself the gas station they stop at from the outside looks identical to the gas station in the original. (00:14:50)
Trivia: The scene where they are wrapping up the body was all ad libbed by R. Lee Ermy.
Trivia: During the police video sections of the film you can sometimes hear a camera flashbulb popping and then recharging. This same sound effect was used at the beginning of the original film when we see the decimated corpses being photographed.
Trivia: Leatherface's chainsaw has had the manufacturer and brand name sanded off so the company wasn't associated with the movie.
Trivia: Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface in the original movie in 1974, was asked to play the truck driver at the end of the movie.
Trivia: Near the start of the film, when the first kid has been captured by Leatherface and they're in the basement, the decapitated head on a table beside Leatherface is that of Harry Knowles, film critic and gossip monger of Ain't It Cool News. (00:37:05)
Trivia: Katie Holmes was considered for the role of Erin.
Answer: Erin must have led the police back to the house and then the Hewitt's were taken away so that way evidence could be collected. They must have thought that Leatherface had escaped and was no longer in the house.