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From Paris, Texas to Chop-Top with RedLetterMedia

Jay Bauman and Josh Davis revisit Tobe Hooper's horror-comedy sequel, complete with Dennis Hopper and a Breakfast Club-inspired poster.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - re:View

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1:08Hooper deliberately pushes the sequel toward absurdity and horror comedy, with Tom Savini supplying the gore effects.
3:05Screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson's credits connect the acclaimed drama Paris, Texas with this very different sequel.
7:32Caroline Williams's radio DJ Stretch takes an unconventional role compared with typical horror final girls.
10:05Hooper's Cannon deal provides context for the sequel's budget cutbacks and chaotic production.
26:55Cary White's underground carnival sets give the third act its elaborate, surreal surroundings.
31:40Later sequels repeatedly reboot or complicate the Sawyer family tree.

RedLetterMedia gives Leatherface's second outing a full re:View, and one of Jay Bauman and Josh Davis's best detours concerns the writer. L.M. Kit Carson went from the screenplay for Paris, Texas to the wonderfully bizarre world of Chop-Top. That's quite a change of scenery.

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - re:View" was the channel's only new upload this week, reaching roughly 610,000 views. Following the earlier discussion of the original, Jay and Josh explore a sequel that deliberately trades stark terror for grotesque comedy. Tom Savini's effects, Bill Moseley's Chop-Top and Dennis Hopper's chainsaw-wielding Lefty all get their turn, alongside Caroline Williams's resourceful radio DJ, Stretch.

The discussion also makes room for the machinery behind the madness: Hooper's Cannon contract, budget cutbacks and Cary White's elaborate underground carnival sets. Even the poster announces the tonal shift, arranging the family in a direct homage to The Breakfast Club.

In the comments, viewers are making return-of-the-video jokes, while another thread gets surprisingly practical: could an old landline stay connected after only one person hung up? Stretch's phone trouble has become a small telecommunications seminar.

Across the channel, daily views are running at nearly twice their usual level, though the subscriber count is unchanged over the week. Weekly view gains are in the same neighborhood as Variety's; MovieFlame is also drawing more daily views than usual.

The new sequel review is the busiest upload right now. "Jack Of All Trivia" continues to draw viewers too, with "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - re:View" keeping the original film in the conversation.

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I remember the first video like it was an hour ago.
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Somehow, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - re:Turned.
@stevenjackson9028See it on YouTube
Terrestrial lines sometimes worked that way. The caller controlled the disconnect. Once the car phone dialed DJ Stretch at the radio station, the landline network at her station treated the incoming call under caller-controlled disconnect rules.
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This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them.
@MatthewMurdock1990See it on YouTube
We’re so back it’s like we never left
@ArizonanSummerSee it on YouTube
8:30 with those old landlines, the person who makes the phone call had to hang up or it would hold the line open regardless of if the other phone was hung up.
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