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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (AKA The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II)

1986

Tobe Hooper

Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Jim Siedow ...

4.5

3,020

Horror. Comedy Young DJ Vantia Block is hosting a music show when two renegade hoodlums phone her and start making trouble. The situation changes rapidly as the kids drive to a passageway and get sawed to pieces by Leatherface while the shocked DJ listens the kids' screams. Local sheriff approaches Block and convinces her to play the recording made from the phone call on radio, hoping that the killers would show up.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jason Wood BBC	"Gratuitously violent, and none too subtle (it lacks the subversive qualities of the original) it's also undeniably funny, maniacally energetic fare with a liberal smattering of enjoyable set-pieces.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] has a lot of blood and disembowelment, to be sure, but it doesn't have the terror of the original, the desire to be taken seriously. It's a geek show (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"This wasn’t the sequel everyone expected, but I’m glad Hooper went with his instincts to deliver one memorable horror comedy."	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"No matter how adeptly 'Chainsaw 2' was put together, it would remain just another exploitation flick for fans who get a tingle from watching blades slash into flesh and innards peep out."	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Success of the lowbudget 'Chainsaw' in 1974 spawned a generation of splatter films which largely have lost the power to shock and entertain. Not so 'Chainsaw 2'."	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"To consider [it] as a satire is to embrace a watered-down interpretation of that word; it’s really failed camp. The film’s lifelessly scattershot and conceptual—a mess of undigested tones, intentions, and symbols.	NEG
United Kingdom	Simon Crook Empire	"The mood follows suit, pitched as Evil Deady black comedy (...) Terribly good (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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