Jim Manzie and Pat Regan are credited for the music. Their contribution belongs to a film whose identity is shaped by road travel, woodland pursuit, and the machinery associated with Leatherface.
An archive reading: listen to how the film shifts between the openness of a road movie and the enclosed family spaces. Music, engine noise, and the chainsaw each participate in that change of scale.
The release and director-interview records provide the starting bibliography here. This archive distinguishes confirmed music credits from a complete cue list; a song heard in a scene, a score cue, and an album track should not automatically be treated as the same thing.
A retrospective linked to Warner Archive’s release. It places the film within the franchise’s changing studio ownership and discusses the home-video presentation.
A Warner Archive Podcast conversation with the director, published May 15, 2018. The episode offers an audio route into the production alongside written retrospective interviews.