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The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a singular film experience. It’s one of the scariest and most upsetting horror movies ever made, and shows a depth of directorial skill that Tobe Hooper didn’t show very often afterwards. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that for a terrifying film about a family of cannibals who hack people up with chainsaws, the movie is almost entirely bloodless. Twelve years after the original film, Tobe Hooper directed the sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and he took this film in a very different direction, both in terms of tone and in terms of blood content.
Where the first film has plenty of violence, both on screen and implied but almost no blood, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 opts for full gore and guts. We’ll see heads split open, piles of intestines, and more. It’s also a film that is fully intended to be comic in a lot of places. There are clearly comedic elements attempted—very dark ones, to be sure—but comic nonetheless. It also features the talents of Dennis Hopper, who, until he was in the Super Mario movie, said that this was the worst film he ever made.
