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Product Description DVD Special Features: Original theatrical trailer Interactive menu screens and chapter selections Soundtrack: English Dolby Surround 2.1, Italian mono, Spanish mono Subtitles: English for the hard of hearing, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish 1.85:1 widescreen 4:3 .co.uk Review Opinion is mixed as to whether Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a worthy successor to Tobe Hooper's seminal slasher flick. The story picks up 14 years after the events of the first film, which have long since passed into local legend. On a relentless search for the maniacs who murdered his wheelchair-bound nephew Franklin, Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright (Dennis Hopper) is drawn to the scene of a brutal roadside killing in Red River, Texas. He soon forms an alliance with Stretch (Caroline Williams), a feisty female radio DJ who inadvertently broadcasts the chainsaw murder of two drunken frat boys live on her late-night phone-in request show. At Lefty's request she replays the tape on air and soon after receives a terrifying visit from two deranged fans, Leatherface and Chop Top, who are intent on killing her. Stretch escapes, and together with Lefty follows the trail of the gruesome twosome into the bowels of the deserted San Jacinto historical theme park, which hides a Leatherface house of horrors. In contrast to the chilling, snuff movie scenario of the original, Hooper whoops it up with this 1986 sequel brimming with gruesome humour, without welching on the thrills. Writer LM Kit Carson (Paris, Texas) reworks Leatherface into a tragic, almost naïve figure trapped beneath a horrific façade and fleshes out his thoroughly dysfunctional family with the introduction of baby brother ChopTop--a steel-plated Vietnam vet. Leatherface's old man (now called Drayton Sawyer) and Grandpa are carried over from the first film. Dennis Hopper is clean cut but dead-eyed in a typically manic performance as the cowboy detective driven by revenge--think of an embryonic Frank Booth from Blue Velvet with a fetish for power tools. TCM2 is a wildly imaginative experiment in terror that stays true to its trashy exploitation roots. On the DVD: The lack of extra features on this disc (apart from the standard theatrical trailer) is a major oversight given that TCM2 has had no previous theatrical or video release in the UK. A director's commentary would have been especially welcome, as well as the addition of the deleted scenes featured on the US laserdisc and special edition VHS versions of this film. Static menus provide options to watch the film with English, Spanish or Italian dialogue and subtitles in Danish, Norweigian and Swedish. The main feature is of more than adequate picture quality and presented in 16:9 anamorphic format. --Chris Campion
C**R
Texas Chainsaw for the MTV generation
Entertaining sequel to the all out grim 70s classic. But whether you will like it or not if you love the original is anyone's guess. Be sure this sequel is more open, even has some lines of comedy in it and is a far different beast to the original.Part 2 concerns a DJ who gets a prank call but the pranksters get killed by Leatherface and the family whilst out on the road and the whole deaths are recorded on air. When she plays it again at the request of bounty hunter Dennis Hopper, 'the family' come for her at the radio show. First half of the movie is played out mostly in DJ headquarters whilst the second half is played out at the family's new underground home. You can tell the budget is 10x bigger than the original, the sets look very good.Tobe Hooper who directed the first movie is back again, and yet his touch never feels like it's here, as said before this sequel is very different from the first movie. Dennis Hopper at first is very good as the hunter whose family member Franklin from the first movie was killed by Leatherface. Hopper has some of the best lines and we even get a chainsaw duel between him and Leatherface. But arguably stealing the movie is Bill Moseley as one of the family members. So good was he that Michael Keaton took inspiration from his character to play Beetlejuice.There are a few problems with this sequel- the police apart from the beginning are nowhere to be found, even though the tape recording was supposed to bring them out of the cracks. The movie never tells us the fate of some of the characters and the finale is taken from the original. A little tired, though final shot looks great.All in all this is a good sequel for what it is trying to be which is ultimately to be more open for teenagers at the time who could see the character of Leatherface and family as more cool, hence the original promo posters at the time.
M**C
The movie is good, not something I can complain about
Great service, fast delivery to countries like Denmark.The movie is good, not something I can complain aboutBravo!!
T**N
IT'S OK
IT'S OK BUT NOT AS GOOD AS THE FIRST. I'M NOT CERTAIN IF THIS IS REAL AS THE FIRST OR JUST AN ADD ON TO THE GENRE BECAUSE THE FIRST IS SUPPOSED TO BE FROM A TRUE STORY TO WHICH COULD ONLY HAPPEN IN THE USA. THERE ARE ANOTHER THREE TO THE CHAIN SAW STORY.
M**G
Film was a gift, so I can't give it ...
Film was a gift,so I can't give it 5 stars. No complaints about delivery!
W**
Good quality good price
Good quality
G**X
Funny and comical horror movie, not scary in anyway at all...
Great, funny almost comical film based plot that is easy to watch but easy on the eye, I enjoyed the film and hopper...
M**N
Not up to the first movies' quality.
Nowhere near as good as the original. Had a bigger budget, but seemed to sacrifice the raw authenticity of the first.Caroline Williams was likeable enough, and tried (and screamed) hard. But following Marilyn Burns was an almost Impossible act.Crop Top was a decent addition to the series. Bill Moseley is always good value. But it all felt in vain.Picked up towards the end, but even that felt like a bit of a repeat of what had gone before in the previous movie.The main issue I guess is, the first movie was perfection. And how do you follow that?
A**R
Prompt delivery and excellent quality
Awful film but that can't be blamed on the seller. Prompt delivery and excellent quality
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