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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
2001
Evening Standard 4 October 2001 p.29 (UK)
"Tobe Hooper's sequel to his first extraordinary film, itself the
longest sustained piece of horror in recent cinema, yet entirely bloodless,
turns out to be an unbelievably ttashy, crude, gory, tedious, amateurish
mess." - from an illustrated review by Alexander Walker
Daily Telegraph 5 October 2001 p.27
"It's tacky, then, but not as tacky as the other Eighties flops
(Lifeforce, Invaders from Mars) that led to this talented horror director
languishing as he now does in late-night TV hell." - from a review
by Tim Robey
The Guardian Section 2 5 October 2001 p.15 (UK)
"Still disdaining a safety-mask - unlike that pussy Eminem - Leatherface
returns in Tobe Hooper's sequel to his 1974 splatter classic [...] This
is a very uneasy, uncertain shocker, quite unable to digest the mix
of horror and black comedy which became a genre-must after the first
TCM. [...] For horror buffs only." - from a review by Peter Bradshaw
The Sun 6 October 2001 p.34 (UK)
"Not as disturbing as the original. In fact, at times
it has some outrageous bad-taste humour. Most of the time it's just
bad. [...] Family viewing - if you're in the Manson Family." -
from a review by Neil Roberts
Independent on Sunday 7 October 2001 p.11 (UK)
"Cheap and nasty as it is, the black humour and schlock-horror
excess can be riotous, and a presumably down-on-his-luck Dennis Hopper
can be seen, chainsaw in each hand, chopping up everything in reach.
And he's the hero." - from a review by Nicholas Barber
The Observer 7 October 2001 p.9 (UK)
"if you saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre a quarter of a
century ago, you intrinsically saw TCM2, which Tobe Hooper churned out
10 years later with a bigger budget: gore and crude belly laughs and
more gore. Why bring it out of the back cupboard now, uncut and previously
unshown, to divert Blair's high moral Britain? Heaven knows. Perhaps
somebody thought George W's Texas had given it a peg. [...] Caroline
Williams registers her claim as the stupidest, screamiest heroine in
Hollywood history."
Sunday Telegraph Review 7 October 2001 p.11 (UK)
"It is a full-throttle parody of the first massacre, complete
with buckets of innards and an unremitting soundtrack of saw-buzzing
and screaming. [...] It's all supposed to be baroque horror, but the
camp sadism of this film leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth - and
it's not just all the blood" - from a review by Jenny McCartney
Last Updated:
22 November, 2008
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