The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Writers:

Kim Henkel (characters) and
Tobe Hooper (characters) ...

Release Date:

22 August 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

After a decade of silence... The buzzz is back!

Plot:

A radio host (Caroline Williams) is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall (Dennis Hopper) hunts them.

Plot Keywords:

Leatherface | Texas | Based On Supposedly True Story | Sledgehammer | Bones

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Dennis Hopper	...	Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
Caroline Williams	...	Vantia 'Stretch' Brock
Jim Siedow	...	Cook
Bill Moseley	...	Chop-Top
Bill Johnson	...	Leatherface
Ken Evert	...	Grandpa
Harlan Jordan	...	Patrolman
Kirk Sisco	...	Detective
James N. Harrell	...	Cut-Rite Manager
Lou Perryman	...	L.G. McPeters (as Lou Perry)
Barry Kinyon	...	Mercedes Driver
Chris Douridas	...	Gunner
Judy Kelly	...	Gourmet Yuppette
John Martin Ivey	...	Yuppie
Kinky Friedman	...	Sports Anchorman

Also Known As:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

89 min | USA:100 min (director's cut) | USA:111 min (Digitally Remastered Collector's Edition) | Hong Kong:100 min (uncut version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (TVC)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

New Zealand:R18 | Germany:(Banned) (1990) | USA:Unrated | Canada:16+ (Quebec re-rated 2006) | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Australia:(Banned) (1986 - 2006) | Australia:R (re-rating, 2006) | Singapore:R21 (re-rating on appeal) | Finland:K-18 (self applied) (2001) | South Korea:18 | Argentina:16 | Canada:R | Chile:18 | Denmark:16 | France:-16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:(Banned) | Sweden:(Banned) | UK:18 | Hong Kong:III | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Norway:18 (DVD rating) (2004) (uncut) | Singapore:(Banned) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Cannon Films

Trivia:

The controversial "butcher cover" of The Beatles album "Yesterday and Today" can be seen hanging in the radio station.

Goofs:

Continuity: As Chop-Top scratches his head with the coat hanger, it switches position from his hair to out in front of him a couple of times when the angle switches.

Quotes:

Chop Top: [to Stretch at the radio station] Can you play Inna-Vida-da-Gadda?

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (#2.18)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Shame on You

Indeed, a second massacre on the rampage!

The answer to who the movie really centers on, is not as simple as could be sounded. This nice little sequel (thats right! a GOOD sequel), the attention could easily be said to circle around Williamss' Stretch, but Dennis Hopper gets the only billing. One "normal" day in Texas, two naughty little highschool brats decide to have fun, by calling in a radio station(hosted by an enthusiastic Williams) and play chicken with other texans, they think. Later, these angered Texans turn out to be, uh huh! Ya, we all know who, as they attack the little brats one dark night following the earlier prank. Williams "Stretch" catches all of this gore galore on tape, and exposes it on her show as a favor for Hopper. Hopper has underacted character who's revenge for the massacre and torture of his nephew and niece (Sally and Franklin from the first) is somewhat unconvincible to an extent, but he has better moments. Williams, on the other hand, is very into her character and obviously takes it to the next level, with some hammy moments resaulting. Still, after she exposes the missing Saw-yer family-she is next! Pretty scary stuff. Nice little set-up puts her in an awfully creepy confrontation with Moseleys' Chop-Top". Then the real terror begins. This one could easily be said to have been just a little more expanded than the first, and I certainly say so. I do, however, put the first one on a higher stand, nothing will ever beat the original nightmare, which still scares to this day. Though Massacre 2 has its real moments of both horror and comedy, it drags in the last real, and won't give up! Tobe Hooper must have worked em all with this one, but its all the same a great fun movie. To say it is bad, would be too harsh, I definitely give this one a thumbs up, and ya know what? I'm not the only one!