- Continuity: When the van pulls up to the service station and the cook comes out there is a red open sign on the door. Later it is gone.
- Continuity: The blood the hitchhiker smears on the van is gone in the long shot a few seconds later.
- Continuity: When Sally escapes from the Leatherface family in the dining room, she runs and jumps through a window, and as she lands shards of glass land all about her. In the next shot as she gets up they're gone.
- Revealing mistakes: After the crazy man cuts his own hand, he laughs and waves the knife. Watch carefully and you can see the hose behind the blade the blood came through.
- Continuity: The position of the hitch-hiker, in relation to the lorry, as it hits him, changes between shots. Also, the hitch-hiker is an obvious dummy as he is hit; you can see the fake limb attachment on his arm.
- Continuity: As the teenagers pull up into the gas station, look at the position of the gas pumps hose and its shadow. In the next shot the gas pumps shadow has vanished and the gas pumps hose is positioned differently.
- Continuity: When the man at the gas station washes the teenagers van, the floor around the front of the van is totally wet after he finishes. But as the teenagers pull away the area around the front of the van is now dry.
- Continuity: When the group of teenagers pick up the hitch-hiker, he goes crazy and cuts Franklin's arm, so they throw him out. As they throw him out the van-door windows are shut. In the following inside shots they're open.
- Continuity: After Sally has run back to the service station for refuge from Leatherface, there is a broom by the door, which changes position a couple of times during the scene.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the scene when the Hitchhiker has been thrown out of the van and proceeds to chase after, and smear blood on the side of the van, at one point the camera cuts to the inside of the van to show the hitchhiker blowing raspberries through the window at the teenagers. During these perspectives, a clapper board (and possible crew member wearing a red t-shirt) can be seen reflected in the window. Considering that nobody in the scene is wearing a red t-shirt, it cannot be any of the cast.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the film Leatherface takes a socket wrench to the face and falls down into a roadside ditch getting his clothes very dirty. Moments later, when he's doing his macabre chainsaw dance, his clothes are all nice and clean again.
- Continuity: SPOILER: When Leatherface kills Franklin, blood spatters on his apron and shirt. In the wider shot, as Leatherface lifts the saw above his head, and Franklin's flashlight shines on him, old stains are still visible on the apron, but Franklin's blood is gone.
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