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Summary: Good, but too much comedy
Review: This film is a great comedy/horror film, but it was not what I was hoping to follow the original. It is a great film, and should be seen as it's own idea. It is a mock of the first TCM film, and I was hoping for some serious continuation of the characters from the original story. Dennis Hopper can bring a great performance to any role, even a silly horror/comedy popcorn flick. Tobe Hooper is directing again, and does an outstanding job. This would be his last film in the TCM series. If you have seen the original, you will like this film, but expect a much more lighthearted picture. If you have not seen the first one, you might want to view it first, to get you up to date on the plot and characters. Gunner Hansen does not play "Leatherface" is this film, and the darkness of the character is lost. He becomes a large, goofy, guy that runs around. It's funny, but the Leatherface character could have been right up there with Jason in the horror film killers of all time. Pick this one up, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: This is why the eighties were so great
Review: They say the eighties were the decade of excess, well, I say it's the last decade where horror movies didn't totally suck, and TCM2 is a good example of a horror movie that doesn't suck! Pretty much everything is here that a horror fan could want: gore, a pretty damsel in distress, a tortured anti-hero, a chilli contest. I don't know if Tobe Hooper ever talked with Stuart Gordon, but here is a perfect example of Gordon's maxum: More is not enough. And it really isn't, especially in this case. And yet, you get the sense this movie starts exactly where it wants to and finishes exactly where it wants to. The DVD is a little skimpy on the special features, but, dude! C'mon! Ya gotta have it! Dennis Hopper, a hot heroine, a guy with a metal plate who eats the dead skin that forms around its edges, Leatherface, and Grandpa! Plus a pretty cool eights style soundtrack. Return with us hither to yesteryear when horror movies didn't have to suck and popcorn cost only a buck!
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Summary: strange scary and funny
Review: the best sequel to a horror movie iive ever seen its amazing the beginings very scary ive your a driver i hate when sequels try to have funny moment in it there really stupid but chop top is so funny i spit my coke out of my nose the cook is also funny hes an old man that cuses after every sentance and the exotic chainsaw love dennis hoopers so good as the man who drys to kill the family from hell. chop top says some ofthe greatest lines lick and kiss my plate and oh my gosh the endings so amazing i cant say in words.
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Summary: SCARYANDHILARIOUS SEQUEL
Review: LIKE THE FIRST SEQUENCE IN TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE WHICH SHOWS ROOMS OF SKELTONS A VER DISTURBING BEGINING IN TCM2 IN WHICHTWOBAD RICH KIDS MESE WITH LETHERFACES AND THE HITCHHIKERS CAR LATTER WHILE THERE LETHERFACE LITERALY TEARS THEM UP WHILE THERE DRIVING. THE SEXY DJ HOST NAMED STRECH IS MET WITH THE HITCHINKER FROM THE FIRST NOW DEFORMED THEN LETHERFACE COMES AND WHILE CHASING HER AND KILLING HER ASSICTINT HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER THEN SEE GETS TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE OF HOURS AS THE WHOLE FAMILY INCLDING LETHERFACE WHO COMES TO HIS SENCISE CHASES AND TORTURES THE POOR GIRL EVERY CHARACTER OF THE FAMILYS BACK LETHERFACE THE COOK HITHHIKER AND GRANDPA NOW 137 HE LOOKS LIKE A CUTE POOR OLD MAN IN THIS ONE HE DOESNT LOOK SCARY LIKE IN ORIGINAL AND A POWERFUL ENDING A MUST SEE FILM
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Summary: BEST SEQUEL THAT SCARED ME
Review: THE SCARIEST HORROR SERIES EVER WITH A CLEVER SECOND THE BEGINING CAR CHASE WARNS ME ABOUT SOME DRIVERS.
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Summary: power sequel
Review: great sequel strange bizare and disturbing a true horrific sequel a must see also see part one and letherface is the scariest killer in history and the hitchiker from the first is very funny lick my plate.
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Summary: Good sequal to a Great Movie
Review: Let me start off by saying this movie was less than what I was expecting. The first half of the movie was great. I started thinking it was better than the first... but as the movie went on, it got kinda boring in a way. Leatherface acted kinda different than he did in the origanall movie. He spares a girls life so he can try and have sex with her later. near the end it seems more like a remake than a sequal. The same things happend just as they did in the first one. Like with the Grandpa trying to hit the girl with the hammer, and the girl trys to run away and the brother runs after her outside. The part I dont understand is how the hell the brother is alive again???? In the first one he got killed by a truck! But he is still alive in this one. Overall I would say this is a good sequal to a great movie.
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Summary: A Fair Sequel to a True Classic
Review: The Texas Chainsaw MAssacre being one of my all time favorite films to date, I was inclined to watch every subsequent chainsaw film. This film, made several years later and on a higher budget, while a fantastic horror masterpiece, was not as good as the original or the sequel which followed it. However, great gore sequences (More gore than the original) and tense horror action make this film a must see for any fan of the genre. I give this film a 3, or maybe a 3.5. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to horror fans.
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Summary: Lick My Plate
Review: This is one fantastic horror flick(if you call call it horror). No redeeming qualities, just brutality and gruesomness up the wazoo. I think Tobe Hooper did a great job with this. I think he knew that he couldn't top the intensity and horror of the first film, so why try to rehash it? He made a good play by making this a comedy-an extremely black comedy. Since remaking the original would be doomed to failure(as the other sequels have proven), he figured he might as well give you something different. Aside from references to the first film, this can be viewed pretty much on it's own without looking at it as a real continuation of the story. There are numerous questions it raises(like who exactly is the guy with the plate? If he's supposed to be a brother, where was he in the first film? If he's supposed to be the hitchiker guy, wasn't he killed? The sequels also had a bad habit of adding new family members.), and those lead you to believe that these movies exist pretending that the other installments didn't happen(but the intros tell you that the films are connected, so you figure it out). Anyway, this film is WHACK! It really pushes the limits of the R rating in terms of violence and plain dementedness. It helps to watch it in the mindset that it's basically a spoof of the first one, and this time around it's not pretending to be an exercise in horror, just junkfood entertainment. Highly recommended. And Cannon was behind it!
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Summary: Wild, Crazy, Operatic Sequel.
Review: For 14 Years, There`s has been Reports of Disturbing, Horrific Murders. The Weapon of Choice is a Chainsaw to these Horrible Crimes. When a Tough as Nails late-night Disc Jockey (Caroline Williams) accidently Caught their last crime on a Tape from a Telephone Call by Two Rich Kids (Barry Kingon & Chris Douriads). A Former Texas Ranger by the name of Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper) is Obessed for years trying to catch these Psychotic Mass-Murderer. The Only Person is to help Lefty is the Disc Jockey but When Lefty persuades Her to play the tape, she haven`t realize, she`s the only witness (soundwise) to the Crime & She lure the Maniacs out of their hiding places and try to get rid of Her. Directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eaten Alive, Salem`s Lot) made a Wilder, Hilarious, Stright-Face Spoof of the Original. It`s seems that Hooper wanted to make fun of his Original film and make it different. Dennis Hopper did definitely did this film for the Money but Hopper seems to be enjoying himself in Some Scenes. This has terrific Make-Up effects by Tom Savini (Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th). This Movie even has a Stanley Kubrick Reference! This film did small success at the Box Office but Did Better as a Cult Favorite Rental on Video. Alternative Version exist of this film with 14 Minutes of Additional Footage on Laserdisc & VHS. The Crazed Killers are played by Bill Johnson as Leatherface, Bill Moseley as Chop-Top, Jim Siedow as Drayton Sawyer & Ken Evert as Grandpa. Siedow is the Only Actor from the Original & Moseley as Chop-Top is a Total Hoot. DVD`s has an fine non-anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer (also in Pan & Scan) and an good-Dolby Stereo 2.0 Surround Sound. DVD only extra is the Original Theatrical Trailer. Not as Good as the Original but Only Funnier! Written by L.M. Kit Carson (Paris, Texas). Grade:A-.
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