There have been previous releases from Scream Factory and Arrow already, but this new 4K UHD from Vinegar Syndrome, looks to be the most definitive edition of this controversial but often and unfairly maligned sequel. It also benefits from amazing practical effects from the one and only Tom Savini. He also contributes to perhaps one of the great jump scares in horror history when Leatherface first shows up at the radio station.ĭespite the compromised and troubled production, the final product is quite interesting and manages to do something a little different in the franchise, which makes it just as weirdly watchable as the original, and way better than the later sequels and reboots/remakes that unfortunately came after it. His approach to this mammoth, murderous hulk may not be as iconic as Gunner Hansen’s from the original, but he manages to provide some actual personality, especially in a scene where he threatens (and falls in love with) “Stretch” with his chainsaw blatantly positioned at her crotch. He also gets an impressively committed cast, led by not just Hopper and Williams, but also the great Bill Moseley as ‘Chop-Top’, Jim Siedow (who returns as the iconic Drayton Sawyer from the first film), and Bill Johnson as Leatherface. It’s madness but you have to admire Hopper for pulling out all the stops and not apologizing for any it. Again, the plot doesn’t really matter because there is a bold display of nightmarish buffoonery going on here. The plot, albeit secondary to the film’s darkly comedic savagery, has the late, great Dennis Hopper playing Texas lawman Lefty Enright, who seeks revenge for the death of his nephew Franklin (from the first film) on Leatherface and his cannibalistic clan, with the help of pretty disc jockey Vanita “Stretch” Brock (the lovely Caroline Williams) at an abandoned amusement park.
It’s gory, unpredictable, and completely insane, which is why is still works. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, legendary genre director Tobe Hooper’s wild and viciously bonkers follow-up to his groundbreaking and still terrifying 1974 masterpiece, is probably never going to reach the heights of that original film, but it does manage to have its own merits.
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