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Summary: TCM is the best movie ever
Review: Anyone who thinks that TCM 1 is good then they ought to check out TCM 2. TCM 2 is better than part 1 mainly because 2 of the worlds cutest and best actors which are Dennis Hopper and of course the hot Jim Siedow. Any girl in their right mind would'nt mind getting kidnapped by that hunk that certainly would include me. HUBBA HUBBA Bill Moseley and Jim Siedow do an excellent performance in this movie. Jim Siedow is the star of the movie because of the way he is, he is so cute with that red bow tie. So for all of you TCM fans out there don't waste your time renting 3 or 4 if you want a great movie worth your time and money check out the texas chainsaw massacre 2.Enjoy that big bowl of chilli. END
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Summary: Unremarkable follow-up to landmark Chainsaw film..
Review: The original Tobe Hooper directed Texas Chainsaw Massacre film was a low-budget classic for many reasons. The gut wrenching use of implied violence led many a movie-goer to leave the theater in disgust persuaded that he had witnessed horrendous, graphic acts that were never actually shown. Truth be told, nary a drop of blood was spilled in that film, relying instead on psychological terror.
For this follow-up, Hooper changed his original winning formula by injecting liberal doses of gore and parody making for a terribly uneven film.
The film follows radio DJ Stretch (the leggy Caroline Williams) as she is pursued by Leatherface and his equally demented brother Chop-Top (Bill Moseley), after being privy to the chainsaw demise of two callers during a late night call-in segment on her show. Meanwhile, Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper), the sheriff uncle of Sally Hardesty (the original victim from the first film) is in hot pursuit of Leatherface and his cannibal clan.
The problems with this film are that the gore murders are just not believable and look hokey, atypical of the usually excellent work of special FX master Tom Savini. Also, the humour is just too over the top and the performances below average. Hopper in particular looks like he's restraining laughter at the implausible situations he is faced with.
The postive aspects of this film: a totally psychotic performance by Bill Moseley (House of a 1,000 Corpses) as the music loving, wig wearing Chop-Top-a truly perverse and often hilarious character and the perfect accomplice to Leatherface's mayhem. Caroline Williams is also a strong final girl, heroic and intelligent, a welcome relief from the stereotypical hysterical, idiotic scream queen that frequently populates such films. The sets are outstanding too, in particular the climax at the cannibals lair-a completely surreal creation straight out of a nightmare.
In closing, there are certainly worst horror films than this one, but compared to the original film and the recent remake this one comes up short on the fright and originality factor. More laughs than terror makes for a strange sequel to a film that originally shocked a nation with its unrelenting intensity.
The DVD is also pretty pathetic with absolutely the worst cover art I have ever seen for a horror film, it looks more like a western, why is Leatherface not on the packaging...The extras are non-existent with only a trailer present, it would be nice to see this film re-released in a more spectacular edition at some point.
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Summary: Worst Movie I Have Ever Seen
Review: Sequels are usually never as good as the originals, even though rarely they are as good. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" however is nowhere near as good as the first "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" which was very influential even for its low budget. "Massacre 2" fails in every thing that it tries to do, from the corny opening scene to the joke of an ending. There is nothing good about this movie from what I can see. Although it stars Dennis Hopper and the original "Chainsaw's" Jim Seidow, it is a very, very bad movie for three reasons- one is that it has no point, another is that it can't decide if its a horror or comedy, and the third is that is doesn't really have the same feel as the original.
First, even though it was directed by horror genius (Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Poltregiest) "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" is not entertaining and has absolutly no point. It does show the family a dacade later, an angered family member of a victim, and a disk jockey who hears a murder, but it shows them, among other things, in really stupid ways. Leatherface is in it, of course, with his brother Chop Top (was in Vietname during the original) and the Cook from the first. Grandpa is also still around, and rediculously so. Dennis Hopper stars as Lefty, a deputy or park ranger or something who wants revenge on Leatherface and his family for the murder of his wheelchair bound nephew (Franklin from the original) and the tourment of his neice Sally (the survivor from the original). Caroline Williams joins him as the annoying disk jockey named stretch who heard a murder while on a broadcast. There was no reason to make this movie. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" did fine without a sequel for 12 years, it could have gone on.
Second, the question came down if this was a comedy or a horror. It was a campy horror flick that spoofed the original, but it was also a movie made to scare you a little. This movie didn't scare, and it didn't make me laugh either. It was just pathetic. At one point Leatherface attacks Stretch, and she's cornered, then Leatherface has an orgasm on the saw? What was going on there, and at another point a woman is eating Chile cooked by the Cook and she finds a tooth inside of it (hinting its human meat). Another scene shows Dennis Hopper in a hardware store and he's trying out chainsaws in a style that makes him look like Rambo or some big action hero. The movie was a joke, not in a funny way, but in a sad, pathetic way.
Third, sequels usually carry on a story or at least have the same feeling as the original- "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" didn't. "Halloween" had the same type of feel as its sequels did. "Friday the 13th" had the same feel as its sequels. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" had the same feeling. "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is a completely different movie from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2". The original was a dark, very scary movie about a family of psychotics in the backwoods of Texas. "Massacre 2" was about a family of freaks living under an amusement park in Dallas Texas (or maybe it was Huston?).
To conclude, do not watch, buy, rent, or think about this movie. There are much better movies out there (i.e. the original "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and the 2003 remake). It has no point, no feel, and no genre. The only thing that should have been cut up with a Chainsaw in 1986 was this movie.
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Summary: The worst movie i have ever seen horrible
Review: this garbage deserves one star because of dennis hopper thats it he makes this movie at least semi-watchable the chainsaw scenes are indescribably fake and it looks like a movie set not even a real place absolutely horrible i eventually had to turn it off because i couldnt take any more of it never have i done that while watching a movie ever nothing close to the original or the remake
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Summary: A real vomit inducer
Review: This movie has got to be one of the worse, if not THE worst, movie that I have ever seen. The acting is horrible. This movie went from bad to worse to I'm going to blow my head off. I understand and believe that deranged, serial killers are mentally unstable. However, this movie takes a back seat to the original in presenting Leatherface as a fumbliing retard. If you're looking for good horror, this movie will completely waste your time.
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Summary: just as good as its predecessor
Review: just as shocking
moving
sick
twisted
funny
magnificant as its predessor
this one just as good a job as telling a story as does the first movie
see this one too
it will freak you out
alot of the death scenes are just so freaky you might just want to cover your eyes at times. i did on one. but it's all good. it's a movie. it's ok to be scared. fear helps you learn to be courageous. or rather to find the courage in you to no longer be afraid of what you saw. but rather more shocked. and suprised. I was definitely suprised. glad I have this on dvd
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Summary: A very odd movie...
Review: The original is pure genius and a classic of the genre. This 1986 sequel is nothing like it, but then again it's not supposed to be. Only once while watching the movie was I scared, and the gore, while plenty, is really not meant to be taken seriously. While not a horror classic, I will say this is one of the funnies movies I've ever seen.
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Summary: Not as good as the Original
Review: TCM2 isn't as good as the original but is still a pretty cool and twisted horror film with the one and only Dennis Hopper but that's pretty much it. The original and 2 are pretty different if you compare them. They look different, they feel different and well...the're different! And that's not a good thing....
Also I know I sound like a you know what when it comes to gore(Since for some reason I hate when people rave about how gory this film is when they haven't seen worse)but I will say it this film wasn't that over the top ok? The only part that was pretty violent is when the guy is getting clubbered to death by a hammer(I think it was a hammer, I forgot)and what happend to Leatherface! He's not as scary as the same insain menace who carried that chainsaw around! The film did have some humor here and there but that is prettty much it
a sequal to the original which is not as good as the original, some o-k actors, a few violent scenes here and there(but it's not that Violent!)and an ok plot with a really stupid ending if you ask me..it just ends..sort of...I give this movie a
3.0 out of 5 stars
I thought this film could have bin better...Dennis Hopper was great though..
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Summary: "Bubba's Got A Girlfriend"
Review: i think this is one of those rare horror movies in which people expect it to be a serious masterpiece, when really all it is is a good slab of fun-loving cannibalistic meat. TCM number one was a masterpiece of horror and filming. we know that. but number two picks up with a completely different story about leatherface. whether it be the over-the-top acting, over-the-top gore, or over-the-top twisted fun, this movie is only worth four stars for its humor. its a black comedy people, not to be compared to its original. this is good entertainment for cheesy horror as well. as long as youre not expecting an actual sequel to TCM in the meaning that it will be like an extension to the attractive mood of the first, i think you will enjoy this film. its almost a spoof.
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Summary: Don't skimp on the meat!
Review: I was 15 years old, when this disgusting masterpiece hit video store shelves for the first time and only 3 years old, when the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre initially appeared on grimy, drive-in screens. That being said I was too young to see both of these on the big screen while huffing on a joint at the time each of them came out. (TCM 2 was rated NC-17 in 1986). However, I knew about both films from their reputations in my junior high school.
Being a fan of teenage slasher flicks like John Carpenter's Halloween, Freddy Krueger, Return of the Living Dead, the Reanimator and Friday the 13th, being obsessed with THE HARDCORE of the hardcore gore/horror films - TCM & TCM2 - was almost a compulsion. I had to see the damn things, even though the idea of seeing both scared the hell out of me. Just seeing scenes of the original TCM in the movie Terror in the Aisles was too much of a teaser to ignore.
Well, in about 1988 or 1989, I finally saw both films. I couldn't have been more right about the TCM2 being unbelievably sick and twisted. What it lacks in sheer horror from the original TCM (one of the scariest films ever made), TCM2 makes up in black humor and barf bag violence.
Dennis Hopper gives an inspired performance (right after appearing in the equally weird "Blue Velvet" and "River's Edge" films) as the cowboy sheriff hunting down the cannibal family, which has relocated from the outskirts of Austin to Dallas. Now known as the Saw-yers: one son resembles a mixture of Sonny Bono and Charles Manson with a taste for the flesh coming off the plate in his headwound, which he allegedly got in Vietnam; another is the inimitable Leatherface, who is suddenly "cured" of his sexual ambiguity from the first film and reborn in the '80s as a chainsaw-phallic weilding, heterosexual pervert; and of course it's hard to forget the dad, the hemmeroid-suffering chili cook strangely resembling the dad on the TV show "the Waltons."
You'll never look at DJ's, tobacco chewing, BBQ and chili contests, amusement parks, wood cutting, Texas radio or ZZ Top quite the same way again after viewing this chilling, hilarious romp. The yuppiecide at the beginning is particularly funny and grossly underrated as social satire.
Not to be missed. 5/5 stars
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