OT but I just recently watched TCM 2 and I think the more often I watch it the better it gets. Note that I never really disliked it either and the first one is still the best by far. Haven't watched the remakes though and probably never will. Except IV (or else, forgot. Was/is called Leatherface and was soso, not an utterly shabby quick cashgrab).
Agree with everything you said. It's been a while since I last saw TCM2, but I do remember it being wildly entertaining! I have one of the newer ones (with Jessica Biel) on Blu Ray, but although gory, it just doesn't have the feeling of the original ones, if that makes sense.
The classic Toby Hooper version of TCM is one of my favorites. [...] The grain, the dust, the over all "low" quality of the film added that much to it. The original. The classic. Great movie!
Exactly. You can just smell the sweat, rot, dust and well, terror of the whole situation. An immersive experience for sure! Add to that the great directing by Hooper, and it's not hard to understand the classic status of the film. It's always refreshing to notice how little blood is actually shown on screen (when you consider the reputation of the film and many of the imitations that followed), and how much of the gore and actual violence happens in the viewers mind.
