Friday, October 9, 2015

"31 Horrors of October"- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2


Of all the sequels in the Texas Chainsaw franchise, the sequel Tobe Hooper did 12 years later has got to be the best. It really is quite the opposite of the first one as that's what Tobe wanted. He didn't even want to make a sequel or anything else that had to do with the Sawyer family because he just wanted to film the original and just leave it as a straight up piece of visceral terror that would be unmatched for years to come. But the fans wanted more, and Tobe obliged. Except, he gave us something that was more of a really heavy handed black comedy with some gore than what we really wanted-just a straight up continuation of what happened after Sally was whisked away in the back of a pick up and Leatherface commencing with the ever so infamous "chainsaw dance". The other sequels outright deny what happened in the original, so I guess none of us will really never know.

12 years after the original, Tobe Hooper brought the buzz back with a sequel he didn't even want to make. So he turned it on it's head and morphed it into a weird black comedy that parodied the original. He also introduced us to the now classic "Chop Top" character and I'm just mostly glad that this film is finally getting the fan base it deserves. 
 

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