12. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a true masterpiece of horror, it looks gritty and outdated and that helps a lot, it gets you from the beginning and the tension just builds and builds until the final chase scene. The realistic low-budget tone gets on your nerves pretty quickly, its something you can imagine yourself seeing in real life, it makes you feel uncomfortable and almost dirty. I remember the first time I watched it, it was stuck in my mind for several days. So fucking awesome.
The sequel… is nothing like that. It’s surreal, over the top and just fucking weird.
Funny as hell but it doesn’t feel like it’s connected to the first film.
Leatherface just seems less threatening here, more stupid and just keeps dancing around with the chainsaw, doesn’t do much for me. Also the ‘good guy’ of the movie is as mentally unbalanced as the bad guys. It made me actually say out loud “what the fuck?!’ a couple of times. Bill Moseley is in this movie, and his character reminds me of David Cross, maybe that’s just me being weird, but yeah.
Not even the special effects ‘maestro del gore’ Tom Savini can help this movie…not even Goo Goo Muck by The Cramps.
If you look at it like a comedy and leave your brain out you’ll enjoy it a lot more than if you try to piece it together with the previous film.
P.S. Have you ever noticed that the poster is a spoof on The Breakfast Club?
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