The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Tobe Hooper, 1986.
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Edition screened: Arrow Limited Edition Blu-ray box set, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Many phrases lose meaning as their usage broadens from a core of people who were keenly interested in a topic to a mass of people who are keenly interested in repeating phrases they have heard. One such phrase is black humor. I think this phrase originally meant humorous material about death, misfortune, and other content not usually associated with comedy, ranging from the suicidal dry wit of Woody Allen to the gory hijinks of Graham Chapman.
As usage has expanded, the phrase black humor has changed meaning and now refers to something that a 7th-grade boy would say or describe on the school bus. Variations such as pitch black humor, jet black humor, and dark-as-night humor are meant to convey levels of awesome awesomeness.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 has about eight minutes of content expanded to a grueling hour-and-forty-minutes of tiresome sight gags and childish one-liners. Admittedly, I am unsure if a character repeating the same line over and over (Incoming Mail!) counts as a one-liner. It’s sort of a no-liner x 5.
I had not seen Hooper’s original Texas Chainsaw Massacre prior to this viewing of TCM 2, and was almost deterred from even giving the original a chance. I am pleased to report that the earlier film is not nearly as terrible as the sequel. The original is a completely different sort of movie, pretty much what we’ve all come to assume, but far more watchable than the incessant juvenile comedy and Just Go To The Principal's Office hyperactivity of TCM 2.
A 1965 Gottlieb Buckaroo is in the hideout, 1:07:08.
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