If you're keen to check in on Leatherface without quite the isolated brutality of the original, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a prime cut.

| Oct 21, 2024

If you don’t want your Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies to end with a chainsaw fight, you should get checked out.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 23, 2022

The chainsaw brood has become bumbling, incompetent, and laughable, focused intently on sudden scenes of intense brutality rather than the careful building of dread.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 8, 2020

Hooper successfully welds together the terrifying steel of Leatherface's chainsaw with a good dose of backwoods Texas humour.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 3, 2019

There's something to love about how unapologetically crazy, and unlike the last one, this movie is...it still tries to convey relatable things.

| Jan 5, 2019

Everything is heightened in Chainsaw 2, the gore gorier, the performances, broader, the music synth-ier.

| Jul 3, 2018

The arguments for the desensitising of the audience are complicated, the ones for their dumbing-down are less so. But what bugs me, speaking as a gnarled old woodsman, is the way these movies keep turning tools into weapons.

| Jan 29, 2018

f you like your horror funny and aren't too squeamish -- say, you're a big fan of Re-Animator or ... Evil Dead 2 -- then Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 will be right up your alley.

| May 13, 2016

An entity of evil in the excellent original, Leatherface is transformed into a buffoon in this ham-fisted outing, to the point that Jerry Lewis should have been cast in the role.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 7, 2016

TCM 2 works because it's a complete original. You never know from minute to minute where it's going to go, and that unpredictability keeps you riveted for every single second.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 19, 2016

Sure, there's a lot more gore and some chainsaw violence paying off for what wasn't seen in its predecessor, but this leaves a lot to be desired when all is said and done

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2013

Seems intent on mocking the first film, rather than paying respect to it and sewing a new narrative.

| May 11, 2013

But time has been kind to this strange movie, and now it plays like a bizarre satire of 80s excess-kind of like a backwoods version of American Psycho with equal parts gross-out humor and over-the-top acting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2012

A good deal gorier and more disturbing than the original. Certainly it's far better than the soulless 2003 remake.

| Nov 18, 2008

A ripe and wicked horror-comedy, as black as pitch and every bit as violent as naysayers mistakenly accused the first film of being.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 24, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 1, 2008

There is absolutely nothing to distract us from the sheer misery of watching oblivious clowns cracking awful jokes.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 9, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Society is restored as before, but it's a society based on victims and victimizers. De Sade rewrites Darwin.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2006

...if nothing else, the entire flick may be worth a look for the absurd moment in which Leatherface breaks loose with a particularly apt example of the ol' shifty eye.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 23, 2006