The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

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Director: Tobe Hooper Year: 1986 Runtime: 101 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.6
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Synopsis

A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.

In 1986, high school seniors Buzz and Rick race along a desolate stretch of Texas highway, en route to the Texas-OU football game at the Dallas Cotton Bowl, and harass a pickup truck driven by chainsaw-wielding cannibal Leatherface along the way. Heavily intoxicated, they use their car phone to call and harass on-air radio DJ Vanita "Stretch" Brock, who, unable to convince them to hang up, is forced to keep the line open. As the two pass Leatherface’s pickup truck again, Leatherface emerges from the back of it and rips up the roof using his chainsaw. Rick tries shooting Leatherface with his revolver, but Leatherface kills Buzz. The car crashes, killing Rick. The next morning, Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Enright, former Texas Ranger, and uncle of Sally and Franklin Hardesty, who were victims of Leatherface and his family years earlier, arrives at the scene of the crime to help solve Buzz and Rick's murders. Lefty has spent the last thirteen years looking into his nephew's disappearance, investigating reports of mysterious chainsaw killings across Texas. He is contacted by Stretch, who brings him a copy of the audio tape that recorded the attack. He sends her away, leaving Stretch and her coworker, L.G. Peters, to reluctantly cover a Texas/Oklahoma Chili Cookoff for their radio show. The winner of the cookoff happens to be Drayton Sawyer, the current patriarch of the cannibalistic Sawyer family, who declares that his secret is having an eye for "prime meat." Meanwhile, Lefty shops for chainsaws at a local hardware store. He at first unnerves, then amuses the shop's owner with his brutal testing of the saws on a log. Lefty then drives to Stretch's radio station and asks her to play the tape on her nightly radio show so that the public, which had previously mocked his case, will have to listen to him. Driving home from his chili cookoff victory with his family, Drayton is called by Chop Top about the tape being broadcast, so he sends him and Leatherface to the radio station. While she is about to leave for the night, Stretch is confronted by Chop Top before being attacked by Leatherface. Chop Top brutally bludgeons L.G. with a hammer. Meanwhile, Leatherface corners Stretch and is about to kill her, but she charms him into sparing her. Leatherface returns to Chop Top and leads him to believe that he has killed Stretch. As they take L.G. to their home, they are followed by Stretch, who ends up trapped inside the Sawyers' subterranean lair, located in an abandoned amusement park and decorated with human bones, multi-colored lights, and carnival remnants. Lefty, who has been following their car all along, arrives equipped with chainsaws and proceeds to vandalize the lair before finding Franklin's remains. Meanwhile, Stretch is found by Leatherface, who puts L.G.'s skinned face and hat on her before tying her arms and leaving. Later, a still-alive L.G. frees Stretch before dying. Leatherface finds Stretch, and the family captures her. Drayton scolds Leatherface when he finds out that Stretch was not killed. They torture her at the dinner table, but Lefty arrives and saves her. Stretch flees the grounds, with Chop Top chasing after her. Lefty wounds Drayton, then he and Leatherface get into a chainsaw fight, in which Leatherface is fatally wounded. The dying Drayton, accepting that he and his family have lost, takes a grenade from Nubbins's corpse and frags himself, Lefty, Leatherface, and Grandpa. Chop Top chases Stretch to the top of a stone tower in the amusement park. Stretch grabs a chainsaw from the corpse of the family's grandmother in a shrine and fatally wounds Chop Top, causing him to fall off the tower to his death. Stretch shouts in triumph and swings the chainsaw in the air, her physical movements echoing Leatherface's "chainsaw dance" from the closing scene of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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a dog dies
spoiler There is no dog in the movie.
someone is sexually assaulted
spoiler Leatherface pushes his non operating chainsaw against Stretch's crotch and masturbates. He then revs it up still near her crotch.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
there's domestic violence
spoiler The oldest brother is abusive towards his younger brothers.
there's abusive parents
spoiler Leatherface's big brother Drayton is abusive towards his younger brothers.
the abused becomes the abuser
Yes
someone is stalked
spoiler You could argue that Chop Top has stalked Stretch. He repeatedly refers to her as his "fave" and follows her to her place of work.
an animal dies
spoiler Pretty sure the other comment is thinking of the first movie.
there's a dead animal
spoiler animal skulls, but no corpses
there are spiders
spoiler You'll NEVER guess if the other comment picked the right movie or not.
there are bugs
spoiler Once again, wrong movie.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
spoiler One of the antagonists pushes his chainsaw against the main protagonist´s crotch through clothes. The protagonist is not physically hurt though.
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
there's Achilles Tendon injury
Yes
hands are damaged
Yes
someone is restrained
spoiler Many times through the movie
a woman gets slapped
Yes
someone is beaten up by a bully
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
a non-human character dies
spoiler A slaughterhouse is described and animal skeletons are shown, but no animals are shown to be harmed
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
someone disabled played by able-bodied
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
someone is kidnapped
spoiler Other comment from first movie. In this one, character is not taken, but IS tied and held hostage. So, kinda
there are jump scares
spoiler Only one, and it's not very scary.
trypophobic content is shown
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
Yes
there are razors
spoiler chop top uses a straight razor as a weapon
There's audio gore
Yes
someone is eaten
Yes
there's spitting
spoiler There is a character whose entire personality is calling another character "darlin'" and spitting an absolute shit ton.
teeth are damaged
spoiler ...Wrong movie, again.
heads get squashed
spoiler Character gets his head beat multiple times with a hammer. It's shown, other comment from first movie
there's decapitation
Yes
there are 9/11 depictions
spoiler This movie takes place before 9/11
there is copaganda
Yes
electro-therapy is used
spoiler No, but a character with a metal plate in his head gets electrocuted and spasms.
Autism specific abuse
spoiler One of the villains that might or might not be autistic is abused by his family members.
autism is misrepresented
spoiler Look, it is not explicitly stated but Bubba is heavily coded as autistic, and since he is a cannibal killer I guess yes.
there's misophonia
Yes
a mentally ill person is violent
spoiler Leatherface is semi violent through the movie 🤷🏿
someone suffers from PTSD
spoiler one of the main antagonists was in the vietnam war and exclaims "'nam flashbacks!" a few times when under duress
someone has an anxiety attack
spoiler Stretch is very much panicking for all the scenes taking place in the Sawyer hideout. There is also a scene where Bubba hits his head against a wire lampshade a few times while distressed, and I found it reminiscent of meltdowns I myself have experienced as an autistic person.
someone has a mental illness
Yes
someone has a meltdown
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
spoiler Choptop uses a razor blade to cut shallow lines across his own throat.
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
somebody is choked
spoiler Chop Top seems to be trying to choke a character in the final scenes but it's unclear
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
shaky cam is used
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
a baby is stillborn
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
spoiler Bubba Sawyer has an unspecified mental disability, and is abused by his family throughout
there are homophobic slurs
Yes
there's fat jokes
spoiler Wrong movie.
someone speaks hate speech
spoiler One of the Sawyers calls the other two "fudge packers," "c**nshit," and "nappy headed," but they aren't the demographics the phrases are usually used for
a minority is misrepresented
Yes
someone says the n-word
spoiler Two characters use racial slurs for two different demographics
religion is discussed
spoiler There is a character who constantly mentions things along the line of “Jesus will protect us all from this evil”
someone dies by suicide
spoiler during the climax of the film one of the antagonists sets off a grenade and his dialogue implies he's doing it to kill himself
Someone attempts suicide
spoiler A character slits his own throat, but his intentions are a bit unclear and this isn't what kills him
someone self harms
spoiler Chop Top uses a hot coat hanger to scrape his scalp. He later slits his own neck too.
there are incestuous relationships
Yes
there is sexual content
spoiler Can’t remember who said it but somone misspells sex “scex”
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
a male character is ridiculed for crying
spoiler Not exactly, but Chop Top and Drayton tease Bubba for having a "crush" on the woman they're planning to kill, and for not wanting to kill her, clearly upsetting him.
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
spoiler other comment is from when this category referred specifically to onscreen rape - there is no onscreen rape but there is onscreen sexual assault (see "is someone sexually assaulted?")
sexual assault is mentioned
Yes
someone has dementia/Alzheimer's
Yes
there's fat suits
Yes
the ending is sad
spoiler Although it’s not a terribly happy ending.
a car crashes
spoiler in the opening, the two rowdy teens crash after their encounter with the saw and the aftermath is shown in the crime scene investigation afterwards, but the actual crash is never shown, just heard over the phone
a person is hit by a car
spoiler The hitchhiker is killed by a truck late in the movie
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
spoiler in the opening again, one of the teens has a gun and shoots it at a sign and is rather reckless with it. later, during the truck fight, he fires it at leatherface but it hits the corpse he's wearing. its not major and doesn't really result in anything, but its still there
there's a nuclear explosion
spoiler there is an explosion near the end of the film, but it's caused by a grenade rather than anything nuclear
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's torture
Yes
there's body horror
Yes
there's cannibalism
spoiler A woman finds a tooth in Drayton's chili during the cook-off scene
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
someone is crushed to death
spoiler No, but there is the threat of a collapsing building
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone has a seizure
spoiler chop top also spasms in a way that could potentially be reminiscent of a seizure when the plate in his head is electrocuted
someone falls to their death
spoiler character has a really long fall at the very end. unclear if they survive
someone falls down stairs
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes

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