What is your opinion on Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?!
Question:
What is your opinion on Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?
I know its nothing compared to the first one but i was wondering if it is any good and give me some reasons why its good or bad thank you
Answers: I love all of the Leatherface movies!!!! Except Generation. Crap movie. Straight to video. Attempts to be funny - fails. Attempts to be scary - fails. It's boring and annoying at best. ...well, out the gate, director Tobe Hooper definitely had much more money, when putting this film together; although it still bears a slightly gritty edge, and a definately dark sense of humor, as compared to the classic original, "TCM2" has deservedly come up on it's own, over the years...
...in making this horrific and shocking film different from his previous "...Chainsaw", Hooper instead chose to place tongue firmly in cheek, and instill an underlining parodic message beneath the murderous and vengeful meyhem...that of the cutthroat world of small-time business...
...despite the many groundbreaking cult performances, some of which have garnished him the utmost of praise, it was sort of odd to see actor Dennis Hopper as a vengeful law enforcement agent...which he obviously played to the hilt, outrageously over-the-top, and at certain points, just about stole the show...
...make-up special effects artist Tom Savini constructed some of his most gleefully grotesque and gory work in this film...a definate highlight of his career (...and just short of his most outstanding work on the George Romero film, "Day of the Dead")...
...a documented box office failure, it took many years for this film to find a more appreciative audience (...with the help of home video, of course); I think that most folks were kinda expecting a more direct follow-up to the classic original, and instead, were afforded a much more satiristic and parodistic presentation and attitude, amongst the prerequisite (and gratuitous) violence...
...most easily, I would place it up on the mantle, as one of the best, most outrageous, and most elclectically & macabre colorful horror films, culled from the '80's...
...heck, if at the very least, the film afforded it's appreciate audience, actor Bill Moseley's wildly rabid performance as "Choptop", which paved the way for other similarly vicious roles in his career, including most recently, his runaway, show-stealing, over-the-top performance as Captain Spaulding in "House of 1,000 Corpses", and "The Devil's Rejects"...