tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175631797077198516.post4976881620457916523..comments2023-08-22T09:21:16.898-07:00Comments on Tobe Hooper Appreciation Society: THAS: Scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 #2JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15544454753709801525noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175631797077198516.post-40022459919137508932011-06-15T02:22:51.265-07:002011-06-15T02:22:51.265-07:00Glad this comment section could be a sort of halfw...Glad this comment section could be a sort of halfway house for TCM 2 trauma!<br /><br />Could've been a Cannon/producer suggestion (the deejaying/popular artists soundtrack), though I'm sure no one here's doubting Carson really knew how to take the idea and run with it. It's perfectly in keep with the film's luxuriating - commoditizing - ethos.JRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15544454753709801525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175631797077198516.post-17557765608953753032011-06-11T23:51:56.668-07:002011-06-11T23:51:56.668-07:00The bridge scene is one of the things that warped ...The bridge scene is one of the things that warped and frightened me as a kid. The Oingo Boingo lunacy certainly helped. Even Lefty pulling back the dismebodied door post crash and seeing the gunner's joke glasses got to me.<br /><br />The soundtrack is awesome as well (Lords of the New Church and the Cramps especially). Chip is right about the soundtrack as this and ROTLD are definitely the best 80's soundtracks to horror. And the repetitive soundtrack does offer a different feel after going into the abyss of the abandoned amusement park.Rodneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175631797077198516.post-16405564891599836432011-06-11T19:12:53.293-07:002011-06-11T19:12:53.293-07:00TCM 2 was the first Hooper film I ever saw, even b...TCM 2 was the first Hooper film I ever saw, even before part 1, and I vividly remember watching these first few minutes and being sucked into the film's world by the opening narration and the way the music quickly segues from Hooper's gothic synth opera score to nearly half the official soundtrack artists in just the first ten minutes.<br /><br />I remember being struck by those rolling green hills of Texas and that feeling of open road lawlessness, before Leatherface does a pickup drive-by with his power tool and gives the gorehounds an early fix to last the rest of the otherwise bloodless brilliant first act.<br /><br />Do you think Stretch working at the radio station might have been a simple way of incorporating the pop soundtrack? Maybe it was Cannon's suggestion. It's every bit as eclectic and well chosen and cleverly integrated into the scenes of the film as Return of the Living Dead. The only significant difference is that the soundtrack takes a bow for a while once she gets chased out of the station and into Texas Battleland - of which the sneaky inclusion of a roadsign is a deft touch.The Barkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12511505932392754809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175631797077198516.post-44609777346670309402011-06-08T23:45:13.946-07:002011-06-08T23:45:13.946-07:00There is something unsettling about knowing these ...There is something unsettling about knowing these kids are doomed to die alone on empty road. The elaborate car chase murder is so appropriate because they die in the same place they started: in their car, still driving endlessly towards Dallas.<br /><br />I'm obliged to go into the bridge scene now, and it's terrible effectiveness! Seeing that the Sawyer brothers have tracked them down and will proceed to act relentlessly is one thing, but the sight of a weathered corpse climbing atop the truck and taunting these kids to the lyrics "No one lives forever" really carries a special, poetic cruelty. I remember being struck by my own feelings of terror when I first watched it!JRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15544454753709801525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175631797077198516.post-51306064144493483692011-06-08T17:05:27.374-07:002011-06-08T17:05:27.374-07:00I must say that TCM 2 was my nightmare as a kid. I...I must say that TCM 2 was my nightmare as a kid. I must have seen it due to my parents' friends' older daughters as well as my childhood best friend's older brother. Part of what struck me with terror was the beginning and the shot setups of the yuppies on the road. I suppose there is nothing greater than having the fear of Leatherface and Choptop chasing you..at least for me as a kid until I turned into an adult.Rodneynoreply@blogger.com