You know what? I don’t have the want or desire to write up a full blog for this sequel. It brought me down. So here’s the full synopsis and it will include spoilers and then I will give my final thoughts and rating.
SPOILERS
First of all, I should say that the cast is really good here. They brought back Jim Siedow who played Drayton Sawyer in the original. Drayton was the brother who was the cook, the guy who ran the BBQ place. They replaced the original Leatherface, Gunnar Hansen,which bums me out. They replaced the hitchhiked, Nubbins, with Chop Top Sawyer, who is his brother. I thought that they were the same character, but apparently the hitchhiker is the corpse that Chop Top carries around with him, and in deleted scenes, it is explained more thoroughly. We also have Dennis Hopper who is the uncle, father or brother of Sally and Franklin from part one. Wikipedia says uncle, and I don’t have enough cares to argue against it. Anyway, he’s a former Texas ranger who has been keeping track of these murders. Finally, we have Caroline WIlliams who plays the role of Vanilla Stretch Brock. Stretch is a radio DJ who works with L.G. at K-OKLA.
With that out of the way, the plot is simple. Early on, these 2 jackasses keep prank calling the station and while on a bridge, they meet a truck coming the other way, and it has Leatherface on it. Now, it needs to be pointed out that this was the longest bridge ever apparently despite when showing the bridge, it looks like a normal length, but let’s not let semantics get in the way here. Meanwhile, Drayton wins some Texas chili cook off and it’s just foolishness. Lefty is pursuing the killers and Stretch has the recording of the audio of the murder. Lefty doesn’t want her help, then he does. Chop Top and Leatherface show up to the radio station and beat the hell out of L.G. way beyond the point of death, but we see later that he is still alive. Leatherface wants to sexual stuff to Stretch, but she wins him over and he allows her to live. Lefty goes and buys a huge chainsaw and 2 smaller ones. From this point on, Dennis Hopper does over the top Dennis Hopper stuff with chainsaws while exploring the Sawyer family’s underground lair. Seriously. Lefty ends up in there as well, gets captured, has LG’s face placed on her’s, sees LG rise up and then eventually die. There’s some fights and I feel that Dennis Hopper is taking on Drayton and Leatherface and a grenade goes off ending that, while Stretch and Chop Top fight it out and he falls and she wins. Yeah, that’s how it goes.
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Final Thoughts – Wow, I am sad that this movie was made. It was a black comedy, but not a very good one. What’s worse is that Tobe Hooper also made this one. The whole change in atmosphere and vibe really hurt this as a sequel. The OG TCM is so dark and gritty and horrific. This one tried to do something different, which I do admire, but the change in tone from one extreme to another didn’t work for me. A complete waste of Dennis Hopper’s talents. Caroline Williams was the star as far as I’m concerned. Also, did we need to have another dinner table scene? Note, having seen parts 3 and 4 after, I can say that apparently is needed, and a Grandpa always needs to exist. SO frustrating. I do want to note, a lot of people consider the House of 1,000 Corpses film to be a homage to TCM, but nobody notes how Devil’s Rejects has a sheriff who is hell bent on hunting down the family that killed his family. Yeah, big similarities if you think about it.
Rating: 2.7 This wasn’t fun for me. I mentally gave up and almost fell asleep. It was an exercise in absurdity and is the worst of the original 4. Not by much, rest assured I will write about part 4 as well. This movie was a missed opportunity, especially witH Bill Moseley to make this a darker and more serious tone.
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