The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2

Screening as part of Enzian's 13+ Films of Halloween.

35mm Screening! 40th Anniversary!

Forty years after it first revved its engine on screen, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 remains one of horror's most gloriously unexpected sequels. Released in 1986, director Tobe Hooper took the grim terror of his legendary 1974 classic and cranked everything to 11, infusing it with a wicked blast of black comedy, an untethered collection of eccentric performances, and an arterial-spray carnival of ‘80s excess that shocked audiences expecting just another by-the-numbers slasher film.

When a late-night radio DJ “Stretch”(Caroline Williams) inadvertently broadcasts the brutal murder of two yuppies by the cannibalistic Sawyer family, she becomes the clan's next target. Teaming with vigilante Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper in a performance that chews more scenery than a dozen chainsaws), Stretch descends into an underground nightmare where Leatherface (Bill Johnson), Chop-Top (a scene-stealing Bill Moseley), and the rest of the Sawyer family have turned ritualistic slaughter into performance art. 

With a budget over 30 times that of the original film, Part 2 transforms Reagan-era America into a deranged funhouse of greed and decay, while Tom Savini's outrageous FX gleefully set world-wide censor boards squirming in a way that proves that sometimes the only way to follow a masterpiece is to drive it completely off the rails.

Featured Cocktail (Available Starting October 1):

Chop Top’s Old Fashioned
Old Grand-Dad Bourbon, Blood Orange Syrup, Angostura, Black Walnut, and Orange Bitters with Sea Salt, Orange, and Beef Jerky

_{1986, 100 minutes, USA, directed by Tobe Hooper, Rated R}