Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The (1986) [reclassified 2011]

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Synopsis

Horror. Based on characters created by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper. A former Texas Ranger (Dennis Hopper) who has been hunting the chainsaw killers of his brother gets a lead when the killers threaten a local disk jockey (Caroline Williams).

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, and vulgar expressions
• Frequent use of crude sexual language
• Frequent use of ethno-cultural slurs; infrequent use of sexual slurs
• Frequent hand-to-hand and weapons violence, some in a sexualized context – blood, detailed wounds and grotesque injuries; infrequent portrayals of gruesome death – blood, detailed wounds and grotesque injuries
• Frequent portrayals of corpses – some detail
• Frequent portrayals of intense fear and emotional suffering

Thematic elements

• The will to survive
• The extremes of aberrant psychology
• The living nightmare

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for brutal and gory violence

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