The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Movie, 1986, The original, Set in Thirteen years later
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is #2 of 9 in release order and #2 of 9 in chronological order in the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
The story
A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 recap
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) follows a radio DJ who airs a tape of a chainsaw murder and draws Leatherface's family to her station. Tobe Hooper returns to direct, with much more black comedy than before. Thirteen years after the first film, two drunk students die on the highway while on the phone to DJ Vanita "Stretch" Brock (Caroline Williams). Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Enright (Dennis Hopper), uncle of Sally and Franklin Hardesty, has spent the years tracking chainsaw killings and asks Stretch to play the tape on air. Drayton Sawyer (Jim Siedow), now an award-winning chili cook, sends Leatherface (Bill Johnson) and his brother Chop Top (Bill Moseley), twin of the hitchhiker, to the station. Leatherface becomes smitten with Stretch and spares her, and she follows the family to their lair beneath an abandoned amusement park, where Lefty arrives armed with chainsaws. It follows the 1974 film.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ending explained
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ends with Lefty and Leatherface fighting with chainsaws in the lair until Drayton, beaten, pulls the pin on a grenade and blows up himself, Lefty, Leatherface and Grandpa. Chop Top chases Stretch up a tower, where she takes a chainsaw from the family grandmother's mummified corpse and sends him over the edge, then swings the saw above her head as Leatherface did in the first film.
Post-credits scenes
No. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 has no mid- or post-credits scene.
Where to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is streaming on fuboTV, Philo, MGM Plus, Fawesome, Xumo Play, and Tubi in the US. You can rent or buy it on Apple TV and Fandango At Home.
Ratings
IMDb 5.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 53%
Where it fits
- Release order: after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, before Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
- Chronological order: after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, before Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
What to watch before The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) continues.
Cast
- Dennis Hopper as Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
- Caroline Williams as Vanita 'Stretch' Brock
- Jim Siedow as Drayton Sawyer / "The Cook"
- Bill Moseley as Robert Sawyer / "Chop Top"
- Bill Johnson as Bubba Sawyer / Leatherface
- Bob Elmore as Bubba Sawyer / Leatherface
- Tom Morga as Bubba Sawyer / Leatherface
- Lou Perryman as L.G. McPeters
- Ken Evert as Grandpa Sawyer
- Barry Kinyon as Buzz
- Chris Douridas as Rick Gunner
- Kirk Sisco as Detective
Directed by Tobe Hooper.