The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

“Leatherface and family turn the slaughterhouse into a carnival sideshow.”


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🎥 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

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🧾 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

So yeah they brought the Sawyers back and decided hey lets not even try to make it scary like the original nah let’s make it a comedy but also still a horror but like a cartoon horror. Leatherface is here but he’s different, Stretch the radio DJ gets dragged into their mess, Dennis Hopper shows up dual wielding chainsaws like a psycho uncle at a BBQ, and then the new Sawyer family member Chop-Top steals the whole movie by just being insane. That’s the gist.


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👥 Character Rundown

Leatherface – shy boy now? He literally blushes at Stretch. Like my dude you wear faces, but this is where you draw the line?

Drayton Sawyer – chili cook-off king, still ranting about his meat recipe. Honestly the most committed man in Texas.

Chop-Top – new guy, metal plate, scratching it with a hot hanger, babbling non stop, yeah he’s the MVP, I liked him a lot.

Stretch – screams a ton but also doesn’t just roll over and die, final girl energy but covered in chainsaw sweat the whole time.

Lefty (Dennis Hopper) – sheriff or deranged chainsaw cowboy? Both. He’s in another movie entirely but it’s funny so who cares.



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⏱️ Pacing / Episode Flow

the first chunk is Stretch at the station and then frat guys getting chainsawed. Then it’s just like… endless time in the underground Sawyer funhouse. sometimes it drags and then BOOM everyone screaming at once. Feels like two different movies stapled together.


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✅ Pros

chop top is literally the only reason to watch this he’s unhinged and perfect

i respect that they didn’t even try to copy the tone of the first one, they just went “nah comedy now”

stretch is solid, she makes it fun even when it’s dumb

the lair is gross and insane, bones everywhere, feels like a carnival built by lunatics



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❌ Cons

leatherface isn’t scary anymore like at all

the shy leatherface thing is dumb

comedy undercuts horror a lot, feels like a parody sometimes

dennis hopper wasted, half the time he’s just vibing with chainsaws talking to god

pacing sags, movie could’ve been like 20 min shorter easy



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💭 Final Thoughts

this movie is not the original, it doesn’t even pretend to be. it’s loud, it’s stupid, it’s bloody, it’s funny, and it’s basically a carnival sideshow with chainsaws. some people hate it, i actually like it for being that weird. chop top deserves his own spin off, he’s the best part hands down.


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⭐ Rating

7/10, not scary but unforgettable chaos.


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⚠️ Spoiler Warning

okay spoilers below stop reading if you don’t wanna know who gets chainsawed


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🩸 Spoilers

we start with two frat jerks driving around, calling into Stretch’s radio show, and then they get ambushed on a bridge by leatherface and chop top. leatherface literally chainsaws through the car and kills them live on air. stretch records it all.

enter lefty, the sheriff with a chainsaw fetish. he wants revenge so he tells stretch to play the recording. dumb plan but of course it works. chop top shows up at her station, scratching his head plate with a hot hanger, rambling crazy, honestly terrifying. leatherface shows up too and instead of killing stretch he’s like “wait i have a crush now” and spares her.

she gets dragged back to the sawyer underground lair, which looks like a texas state fair built by psychos. bones, tunnels, christmas lights, meat. drayton’s ranting about chili again, chop top’s going feral, leatherface is acting like an awkward boyfriend, it’s chaos.

meanwhile dennis hopper arms himself with like three chainsaws and storms the place screaming bible verses and swinging like a lunatic. he goes chainsaw to chainsaw with leatherface in a duel that looks like it belongs in a video game.

stretch is chained up, tortured, chased, but manages to break free during the insanity. final scene is her picking up the chainsaw and going full psycho scream queen at the top of the lair while everything collapses.

roll credits, everyone’s sweaty and covered in BBQ sauce.