Tobe Hooper's last decent darkly comedic gory comedy thing-y: 1986's
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 from the now long-defunct Cannon Films company. Yes folks, easily the last thing he did that gained a solid cult audience and entertained more then just a few dozen people in our bickering/over-crowded and name-calling planet.
And yes actually it's a damn good movie. I just heard on a genre film centric podcast that I listen to that this and Killer Klowns from outer Space is scheduled to be on Blu Ray this year. Finally, very cool!! Hopefulyl the print & audio used will be note-worthy as well, too, and that all of the extras will be ported over from the standard def "
Gruesome Edition" that my good frined & personal Facebook buddy Michael "Slipcase" Felsher worked on, will all be audio ported over, too.
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He's a great guy and always messages me back in real time.
And yes I
REALLY want this cult film to look good. I've had many versions of it, ranging from the old shitty Elite Entertainment Laserdisc (yup, I have about four dozen of them from the lat e'90s--shut up!) and two VHS tapes and two of them on standard def DVD as I'm a serious cinephile with Asperger's and one thing that I always loathed is that MGM or Acnhor Bay or perhaps maybe even Cannon Films always made this film look
SO dark & shitty and I feel that it can be a lot more colorful & brighter. I want it to sound better, too. I LOVE the new-wave rocky post-punky soundtrack to this badboy of the tail end of the mid '80s with Oingo Boingo on there as well as Concrete Blonde (from The Hidden soundtrack as well, too) and The Cramps on there (from Return of the Living Dead). This & the first one are STILL my favorite Hooper films, right up there with The Funhouse. After that I loathe his filmography, though. He's directed a
TON of shit in my eyes. But yes this is a very good film. You all need to go back & re-watch it. And yesI've been on a semi-nostalgic '80s nostalgic kick lately, so sue me.
They do need to add one more special feature in there, though: a final big RIP to the late co-star Lou Perryman whom was killed outside of Austin, TX in his own home a few years ago, merely for being a kind person to a stranger with a mental disorder. SO sad how he went.
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