The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Tobe Hooper: The Cannon Years, Part III

For the final film in Tobe Hooper’s Cannon Films trilogy—and the last wide theatrical release of his career—he returned to the movie that started it all.

At the end of his three-picture deal with Cannon, the studio asked Hooper to deliver a sequel to his 1974 horror masterpiece. But THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (1986) was not the film they—or most audiences—were expecting. Loud, gory, satirical, and often absurd, the film ditched the gritty realism of the original in favor of pitch-black comedy and over-the-top violence.

In this episode, we follow the story of how CHAINSAW 2 came to be, how it baffled critics and audiences upon release, and how it gradually found a second life as a cult classic—now considered one of Hooper’s most distinctive and beloved films.

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Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.

This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne, Justin Bishop, and Todd A. Davis.