4K UHD Review – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

In the 1980s, Director Tobe Hooper signed a three-picture deal with Cannon Films, who gave him money to make "Lifeforce," time to craft "Invaders from Mars," and a demand that he return to the source of his greatest creative success, delivering a sequel to his iconic 1973 shocker, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." It's not easy to make a follow-up to a movie known for its distinct take on berserk horror, but Hooper and screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson try to make deafening magic happen again with "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," which returns to the wilds of Texas to explore more hellraising with Leatherface and his demented, cannibalistic family. Hooper and Carson aren't completely committed to replicating the previous feature, delivering a wild first half that that successfully reintroduces a terrible threat with a different approach, turning the whole thing into a John Waters production, only with more extreme violence (sold with triumphantly macabre artistry by Tom Savini and his team). "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" is bonkers, with Hooper trying to combat repetition by going deeper into lunacy, attempting to blend black comedy with grisly encounters, and it works for little while, providing a freewheeling exaggeration of genre extremity, nicely performed by an impressively committed cast. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com