The same is rarely said, however, for any of the dozen-plus features that would follow. It’s every bit as game-changing and genre-defining as Halloween, Night of the Living Dead or Scream. Only the world’s most dedicated contrarians ever call The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s quality and influence into question. That’s triply true for the filmmaker I’d choose as Mount Rushgore’s fourth giant head: Tobe Hooper. Esteemed as they are, each auteur is considered (however erroneously) to have worked well past their prime. The likes of Scream 4, Bruiser and The Ward certainly have their defenders, but they also complicate any argument in favor of their directors’ artistic bona fides. But even they struggled to secure funding and critical respect throughout their long careers. Craven, Romero and Carpenter kick-started franchises, designed iconic characters and helped elevate their preferred genre to the stuff of art. The fourth spot’s a little harder to fill.
Few would dispute his status as Horror’s Auteur Emeritus. John Carpenter - still with us - has left directing to tour as a musician, but his impact on the genre remains immense. George Romero all but invented our modern idea of the walking dead and imbued his films with searing social critique. With The Last House on the Left, Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, Wes Craven reinvigorated that most disreputable of genres in three straight decades. They’re three Washingtons or three Lincolns take your pick. Each filmmaker enjoys a prominent place, carved in stone in any genre fan’s personal pantheon. The first three spots on American Horror’s Mount Rushmore are easy to fill. 5/10.A shot of neon-lit adrenaline that’s best experienced on an empty stomach, Tobe Hooper’s disorienting sequel disregards all intentions of a continuing saga I think that may be the reason I didn't like it as much, I had no idea that it was so different. If you're going to see this, just don't expect anything close to the original. This film is in my opinion the worst sequel of the series.
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Hooper lost what the rest of these films had - the sense of isolation in the Texas country, and the serious, realistic attitude that made the original movie so scary. It doesn't match up with the terrifying original. The powerful, grainy, realistic aura of the original film is completely lost, this film is more of a quirky freak show of the Sawyer family. It's much more comical, and much less serious. The biggest problem that I have with the film though, is that it lost all similarities with the original film, which I consider to be the best horror film of all time. Then it turns out the family's home is a maze of caverns that was formerly a Texas state national park, each tunnel being decorated with lights, furniture, and corpses. It seemed like half the movie is Leatherface and ChopTop chasing this radio host around the radio station, which got old really quick. One reason is because a lot of it was taken place in a radio station, so the isolation and helplessness that all the other films contain is gone. This movie didn't seem like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film at all, it was just some plain, corny, gory flick. When I saw Tobe Hooper was directing this, I was thinking "Okay, this should be decent, it's the director of the original".