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Leatherface corners Stretch and is about to kill her, but she charms him into sparing her. While preparing to leave for the night, Stretch is confronted by Bobby "Chop Top" Sawyer before being attacked by Leatherface. Lefty then drives to Stretch's radio station and asks her to play the tape on her nightly radio show so that the public, which had previously mocked his case, will have to listen to him.ĭrayton, driving home from his chili cookoff victory, demands that his family go to the radio station, prompted by the nightly radio broadcast of the tape. He at first unnerves, then amuses the shop's owner with his brutal testing of the saws on a log.

Meanwhile, Lefty shops for an arsenal of chainsaws at a local hardware store. The winner happens to be Drayton Sawyer (current patriarch of the cannibalistic Sawyer family), who declares that his secret is having an eye for "prime meat." to reluctantly get radio coverage of a Texas/Oklahoma Chili Cookoff. He sends her away, leaving Stretch and L.G.

He is contacted by Stretch, who brings him a copy of the audio tape that recorded the attack. Lefty has spent the last thirteen years looking into his nephew's disappearance, investigating reports of mysterious chainsaw killings across Texas. The following morning, Lieutenant Boude "Lefty" Enright, former Texas Ranger, and uncle of Sally and Franklin Hardesty, who were victims of Leatherface and his family years earlier, arrives at the scene of the crime to help solve Buzz and Rick's murders. Rick tries shooting Leatherface with his revolver, but Leatherface kills Buzz. As the two pass a pickup truck, Leatherface emerges from the back of the truck and rips up the roof using his chainsaw. Unable to convince them to hang up, Stretch is forced to keep the line open. Heavily intoxicated, they use their car phone to call and harass on-air radio DJ Vanita "Stretch" Brock. Two high school seniors, Buzz and Rick, race along a desolate stretch of Texas highway, en route to the Texas-OU football game at the Dallas Cotton Bowl. It was followed by Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III in 1990. Despite the mixed reception, the film eventually gained a cult following. Director Tobe Hooper decided to focus on its black comedy as this was present in the first film, but was unacknowledged by viewers because of its gritty content. Positives and negatives referred to its emphasis on black comedy and gore, which departed from the first film's approach that used minimal gore, low-budget vérité style and atmosphere to build tension and fear. The sequel received a mixed reception from critics and audiences alike. Starring Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Bill Moseley, and Jim Siedow, the plot follows a radio host victimized and captured by Leatherface and his cannibalistic family, while a former Texas Marshal hunts them down.ĭuring its theatrical release, the film grossed $8 million domestically against its $4.5 million budget and became popular on home video. Kit Carson and produced by Carson, Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan and Hooper. It is a sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, also directed and co-written by Hooper. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (also known as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2) is a 1986 American black comedy slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper.
