Alternate versions

The home media releases contains three alternate endings:

• In this ending, Chrissie gets in the car after escaping from the meat factory and Leatherface is not in the back seat, but then Leatherface saws through the window with the chainsaw and he kills Chrissie.
• This ending is the same as the theatrical ending, but Leatherface stabs Chrissie with a knife through her chest, instead of ramming the chainsaw through her stomach.
• Also the same as the theatrical ending, but not with the voice over from John Larroquette, but with subtitles instead

The German theatrical version was cut for violence by 8 minutes in order to secure a "Not under 18" rating from the FSK. The subsequent DVD release has an SPIO/JK approval but is still cut in two scenes (Uncle Monty's legs, and Dean's death). Finally, in February of 2025, the movie (both cut and uncut versions) was removed from the BPjM Restricted Index list.

This is a list of every extra scene on the Unrated version on the home media releases:

• A bit more blood when Sloane (Leatherface's mom) is in labor with Leatherface.
• Two more violent shots of Leatherface smashing his boss's legs with the hammer.
• A whole new scene where nine bikers, including Holden and Alex smash up the car of the teens, also causing Eric's mirror to break which explains his line ''God damn it, broke my mirror!''
• Some extra dialog when Sheriff Winston and Hoyt (not the sheriff yet.) Where Sheriff Winston tells Hoyt how one of his friend told him how to finger a horse.
• At the first dinner table scene, Hoyt talks more about the people in the town leaving and we see Leatherface starting to eat.
• There's a very short conversation with Holden and Alex into Luda Mea's store after Bailey asks where the bathroom is.
• Hoyt pulls the piece of glass out of Bailey's stomach after the car crash and he licks the blood off of the glass and Bailey screams at him ''You *beep*-*beep*."
• There is some more dialog in Sheriff Hoyt's car with Eric, Bailey and Dean in it.
• When Bailey is tied under the table, Leatherface walks into the room and she starts screaming as he stares at her.
• Before letting Dean do the push ups, Hoyt yells some more at Dean and now, Dean has to do twenty push ups instead of ten. The scene is the same, but Dean just like, goes from eight to eighteen.
• There is more dialog between Luda Mea and the Tea Lady including the Tea Lady saying how good she thinks Ice Coffee is.
• Eric's torture scene is a bit longer, it includes some more shots of him getting tortured and an shot from his arm skin getting peeled off.
• The scene where Chrissie first enters the house is extended a bit, when Luda Mea drops the jar, she cleans up the mess and she throws it into the trash can.
• Holden's death is more graphic, it includes an extra shot of him getting cut in half.
• Eric's death has more graphic shots including a piece of flesh flying out of his body and the chainsaw coming really close to Chrissie under the table.
• The scene where Monty's legs are cut off is extended, there is an extra shot of his legs falling to the ground.
• During Bailey's death scene, there's an extra shot of Hoyt smiling at Leatherface, before he slits her throat. And there's and extra graphic shot of Bailey's slit throat.
• In the slaughterhouse, When Leatherface looks for Chrissie in the blood pools, we see an extra POV shot of Leatherface looking into a blood pool, without Chrissie in it, and lots of rotten flesh floating around.
• During Dean's death scene, there's an extra graphic shot above Dean when Leatherface is still running the chainsaw for five more seconds.
• Chrissie's death scene includes two extra shots, one is the chainsaw cutting up her belly button, and the second shot is him pulling the chainsaw out of her.