Jokeyness is the keynote of the sequel. Naturally the damsel-in-distress, who at one point has to wear the peeled-off face of a friend of hers as a mask, finds plenty of things to scream about: your eardrums take a real beating. But the family of murderers suggests nothing so much as Charles Addams crossed with Erskine Caldwell, or perhaps Al Capp, plus strains of Mad Max and its sequels, Halloween and its sequels, Night of the Living Dead and its sequels. All the human slaughter, this time, is for the purpose of providing the special secret meat for a prize-winning chili recipe; and when the author of that recipe gets split up the middle with a chain saw, he whimpers to himself: "The small businessman always gets it in the ass." Which gives you a good indication of the amount of actual funniness in the jokes. With Dennis Hopper; directed by Tobe Hooper. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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