YMMV pages for individual films:
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
- Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- Texas Chainsaw 3D
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Rest of the franchise:
- Draco in Leather Pants:
- You read correct, people - Leatherface, especially Tom Hewitt. People under this mindset tend to paint him as a sweet man child who doesn't know any better, despite his series of murders and participation in his family's crimes of torture and cannibalism.
- Chop Top also has his share, even if his abusive and murderous tendencies cancel out any humorous qualities he has. Notably, this would not be the only role of Bill Moseley to receive this treatment.
- Evil Is Cool: Leatherface and his families the Sawyers and the Hewitts, whom they are both cannibalistic families, but the former for their Laughably Evil Black Comedy quirkiness and their Character Rerailment as a serious threat in Texas Chainsaw 3D and Leatherface, while the latter for their genunine scariness and R. Lee Ermey as Hoyt.
- First Installment Wins: The original film is considered a landmark film in the horror genre. None of the sequels have garnered praise anywhere close to the original, let alone matched its impact.
- Jerkass Woobie: Leatherface. How much of a Jerkass depends on the film (outside of the whole cannibalism thing), but for most of the series he is a severely mentally ill and challenged man who acts on his abusive family's orders.
- The Problem with Licensed Games: The Atari 2600 game was an early example of Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 (you play as Leatherface and kill little girls), and kicked off a small controversy in its time, but that's the most notable thing about it; it's a slow, clumsy, extremely repetitive game with weird collision detection and a core loop that gets old after fifteen seconds. Even the gore is rather dampened by nonexistent graphics and the decision to express screaming as a high-pitched drone that sounds like a smoke detector.
- Sequelitis: The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is widely considered one of the best and most influential horror movies of all time. Opinions on each sequel vary from person to person but it's widely accepted that none of them are as good as the original, with Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Next Generation, and the 2022 film typically being considered the worst of the bunch. The only sequel considered to have anywhere close to the acceptance of the original is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and even that is up for debate.
