I remember watching TCM 2 as a kid and my grandfather kept going on about how bad it would be for the chainsaw to use it the way Lefty did during his test run. Pappy grew up during the Great Depression and knew how to make stuff last.
Man how cool! Caroline Williams is just so lovely too! You are so fortunate to get to visit and create all this. Thank you so much for all the time and energy to make these vids ❤️✌🏻
Man I love what you do. I'm only 30 years old but I've been getting tore up inside watching all the old buildings and prairies I grew up with get leveled and turned into shopping centers and warehouses and housing developments. So much land and history destroyed for blind consumerism and profit chasing in mere decades. I hate how urbanization spreads like mold on the landscape
I lived in Dallas and heard they were filming in Bastrop,Texas so I decided to drive down and see what I could see and I'm certain I drove across the famous bridge not knowing it would later be in the film and then came across a open costume trailer during the day, I could see part of the Leatherface costume hanging there and man I was excited, thought I would strike up a conversation with this crew lady inside and was greeted with this scream of disapproval for talking to her. Completely rude to me. But none the less it was a thrill to see it. Also driving down I-35 near Prairie Dell I could see remnants of the amusement park used in the film either on my way down to the set or a couple of years later.
18:09 - I believe that is the old train tunnel structure. I used to live in Killeen, TX, and loved horror movies. We moved to Germany in '85 where I finally saw TCM2. Had no idea some outside shots were filmed at the old "Prairie Dell Lake" park we went to in the early 80s. We moved back to Killeen in 1989 and spent an afternoon looking for it (no internet) before finding out it was demolished years later. Prairie Dell Lake also had an arcade (broken up into several areas), first time I played Venture. The rides weren't big (carnival style, tilt o whirl, type stuff). It's been almost 40 years, but I still remember the stale nachos and the commercial jingle. :D
great info, plus there was a side building that housed the charlie brown hangout/bakery/ice cream parlor sporting with a weird sign proclaiming: freedom hill international bank- we have a good rate of interest in our bread plans were also in the works to build on the site next to the matterhorn replica the world's largest rollercoaster, yet it never happened since the owner didn't have enough money wasn't there also: a roller skating rink? indoor cliff divers next to the tourist restaurant where the waiters served roast beef on styrofoam plates some guy dressed up in a jalapeno costume doled out hard candy to children? wooden cabins overlooking the rear lake? stuntman bob elmore mentions in an interview about undeground long tunnels where that scene was filmed of bubba chasing stretch before the wooden support beams/rocks caves in director tobe hooper said it was a very strange place
additional info: 75 acre site, located off a service road parallel to interstate 30 (jarrell, bell county, texas) opened in 1979 by frank weiss, damaged by tornado in 1980 and fell into bankruptcy foreclosure in 1983, purchased by ohio businessman phillip fry 70 feet tall fiberglass stucco mountain replica of switzerland's matterhorn (from a distance looked like paper mache) the roller skating rink was 100 feet long inside the "mountain" featured miniature golf plus gift shops
I remember as a kid seeing the trailer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on tv in the evening. I happened to catch it a few times. SCARED THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME. When you are a kid you don't realize the movies are fake.
Good stuff man I own several copies of that movie from a VHS to a DVD Blu-ray and the list goes on keep up the good work the Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchises are my favorite
I love TCM 2. My uncle worked in a video store back in the 80s and gave me a TCM 2 soundtrack cassette tape, which I still have to this day. It was my introduction to the TCM movies. I didn't actually see TCM 2 until the early 90s when I was a little older, but it's a great movie and doesn't always get enough love. The first one and part 2 are my favorites of the franchise, by far. Hopefully, one day, we'll get to see a release of "All American Massacre." It's a shame that one was never finished and released.
I have to admit your dedication and style of editing really adds a quality to you videos that's head and shoulders above the rest! Now that I said that back to the regular scheduled comments of being a d**k.
I saw this film when it first came out and still think it’s the best of the chainsaw movies (my favorite anyway) I liked the humor and characters plus it had some great horror and atmospheric vibe. I’m glad that it’s finally getting the recognition it deserves in the annals of horror movie history. 👍💯
Yess, i don't like when people say poltergiest feels nothing like a tobe hooper film and only a Spielberg film, yes it feels like Spielberg but Texas chainsaw 2 and poltergiest both have that awesome 80s giddy horror feel that only Tobe hooper could create.
My first Texas Chainsaw film as a kid in the mid 80s, scary and fun. I remember thinking what heck happened to everyone with a classic Chainsaw dubious ending👍 . I met Bill Moseley at Nuke the Fridge over at Frank and Sons . Ultimate cult classic, I can't even call this classic a cult film it's such an awesome sequel 👍🌴😎🎬
I would kill to hear Sean's commentary over the Horror's Hallowed Ground episodes. I just saw it mentioned in the video description of an earlier episode as a possibility during the pandemic. I had no idea there was any kind of bad blood regarding the content of some of the episodes. These are by far the best features of any Scream Factory blu-ray and they are lucky to have the content. I've purchased their blu-rays specifically for HHG.
This was one of the best then & now locations. That I’ve ever seen great detailing, editing and story telling! Thanks for this one, one of my favorite movies. But I gotta question! Where’s the little fryhouse?! Lol 😆
Tom Morga's a great guy, met him at a con a few years back. Being a HUGE Ghostbusters fan i was mainly talking to him about being Egon's stunt double. But i do remember one thing, his handler quite rudely demanded i pay for my autographs now, and i said, this guys played Jason, Michael Myers and Leatherface, you really think i;m gonna run off :)
Sean, thank you! I knew of you from your Halloween and The Fog episodes for the Blu-ray releases. Great job as always. You should do an episode for ONE DARK NIGHT with Meg Tilly. The graveyard is in L.A. The address is clearly in a shot of the movie where the caretaker locks the gate in the evening. I believe the same cemetery was used in HORROR STAR (Frightmare) starring Ferdinand Mayne as the aging actor who dies and comes back to wreak havoc on a horror movie fan club who stole his body from the mausoleum. Great stuff. lol
I love TCM2. Maybe it’s because I saw it at such a young age and the tongue in cheek humor of it appealed to my young mind. In my teens I began to respect it because of how different of a tone to the original it had. By that time I had seen alien/aliens, gremlins/gremlins 2 and saw that TCM 2 wasn’t unique in how it went it’s own way. As Aliens went more action horror compared to the spooky old house feel of Aliens or how Gremlins 2 went full Merry Melodies compared to the dark humor of Gremlins. TCM was revolutionary and instead of doing the same movie and tone all over again Tobe Hooper decided to make it it’s own animal by giving it a twisted dark humor vibe. While TCM is an intense horror flick, TCM 2 is just a fun movie.
All this building over something that in the future no one will ever know that their favorite horror film location was there just makes me want to remember what happened with Cabrini green.And another feeling that times are changing and that if you want to shoot in the place where that last horror film was shot you better get started.
I thought the radio station was on Guadalupe and the back alleyway of 7ths street . The building looked like the radiostation. I was told that by a local pawn shop owner, when I was looking for guitars a few summers ago .
@@malfuncsean that's cool you got her on. I have looked at austin archive photos from 60s through 89. And that building is not there. I analyzed ariel shots from planes and helicopters. Until there is archeology or historical data, I will always wonder. I really enjoy your show and hope you can make more.
@@malfuncsean so I was wrong and you were close. The radio station was shot on 3rd street west between Guadalupe and San antonio street. One block over. It would of been directly across the liberty lunch and Lamar building but closer to third street and closer to the parking garage on san antonio. Here's the pic you can line up up on google map looking towards the westside of the hobby jr building. www.imdb.com/title/tt0092076/mediaviewer/rm2500835585/
Man they did a hell of a job convincing my 13 yr old self back in '86 that radio station was way out in the boonies...nope: downtown Austin! Its been yrs since ive seen this but was the station said to be urban in the film?????
I remember watching TCM 2 as a kid and my grandfather kept going on about how bad it would be for the chainsaw to use it the way Lefty did during his test run. Pappy grew up during the Great Depression and knew how to make stuff last.
This never gets old . I've watched it several times and it still is fun to watch .
SAME!!
Man how cool! Caroline Williams is just so lovely too! You are so fortunate to get to visit and create all this. Thank you so much for all the time and energy to make these vids ❤️✌🏻
Man I love what you do. I'm only 30 years old but I've been getting tore up inside watching all the old buildings and prairies I grew up with get leveled and turned into shopping centers and warehouses and housing developments. So much land and history destroyed for blind consumerism and profit chasing in mere decades. I hate how urbanization spreads like mold on the landscape
Yes it sucks. Glad you enjoyed the video though.
Dennis Hopper is a true legend lost in time
That intro alone is classic..lol..😂🤣, I've always loved TCM 2, chop top use to scare me as a kid...new subscriber!
Same!❤
Fun to watch. I've lived in Austin all my life. Had no idea that bar i pass all the time was the chainsaw shop. Wild😳
Found you from the Woo! Love your storytelling ability. 🖤
Thank you! Stories I got.
Same here! Adam sent me.
Ur the man sean love u vids bro .......hook them horns 🤘
Found him through Scream Factory.
I love ur adventures dude and I love ur collection in ur house
THIS WAS SO AWESOME, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH 4 THIS COOL JOURNEY INTO CINEMATIC HISTORY... TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 FOREVER!! 🤘💥💥💯🤘🥲💯✨✨✨✨✨
This was awesome . “My kid banana”
"My aching banana" lol
Adam to Woo!! He don't even need permission he don't even ask your mom!!
I’ve been binging these location series, absolutely love them!
Glad you are enjoying them. I have a bunch of new episodes shot just have to edit them.
I lived in Dallas and heard they were filming in Bastrop,Texas so I decided to drive down and see what I could see and I'm certain I drove across the famous bridge not knowing it would later be in the film and then came across a open costume trailer during the day, I could see part of the Leatherface costume hanging there and man I was excited, thought I would strike up a conversation with this crew lady inside and was greeted with this scream of disapproval for talking to her. Completely rude to me. But none the less it was a thrill to see it. Also driving down I-35 near Prairie Dell I could see remnants of the amusement park used in the film either on my way down to the set or a couple of years later.
awesome story! love this
It's sad a lot of the buildings and sets are long gone. Still a very well put together video. Thank you.
very well done! Sean put the work in!
18:09 - I believe that is the old train tunnel structure. I used to live in Killeen, TX, and loved horror movies. We moved to Germany in '85 where I finally saw TCM2. Had no idea some outside shots were filmed at the old "Prairie Dell Lake" park we went to in the early 80s. We moved back to Killeen in 1989 and spent an afternoon looking for it (no internet) before finding out it was demolished years later. Prairie Dell Lake also had an arcade (broken up into several areas), first time I played Venture. The rides weren't big (carnival style, tilt o whirl, type stuff). It's been almost 40 years, but I still remember the stale nachos and the commercial jingle. :D
great info, plus there was a side building that housed the charlie brown hangout/bakery/ice cream parlor sporting with a weird sign proclaiming:
freedom hill international bank- we have a good rate of interest in our bread
plans were also in the works to build on the site next to the matterhorn replica the world's largest rollercoaster, yet it never happened since the owner didn't have enough money
wasn't there also:
a roller skating rink?
indoor cliff divers next to the tourist restaurant where the waiters served roast beef on styrofoam plates
some guy dressed up in a jalapeno costume doled out hard candy to children?
wooden cabins overlooking the rear lake?
stuntman bob elmore mentions in an interview about undeground long tunnels where that scene was filmed of bubba chasing stretch before the wooden support beams/rocks caves in
director tobe hooper said it was a very strange place
additional info:
75 acre site, located off a service road parallel to interstate 30 (jarrell, bell county, texas)
opened in 1979 by frank weiss, damaged by tornado in 1980 and fell into bankruptcy foreclosure in 1983, purchased by ohio businessman phillip fry
70 feet tall fiberglass stucco mountain replica of switzerland's matterhorn (from a distance looked like paper mache)
the roller skating rink was 100 feet long inside the "mountain"
featured miniature golf plus gift shops
I remember as a kid seeing the trailer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on tv in the evening. I happened to catch it a few times. SCARED THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME. When you are a kid you don't realize the movies are fake.
Good stuff man I own several copies of that movie from a VHS to a DVD Blu-ray and the list goes on keep up the good work the Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchises are my favorite
Always enjoyed part 2 over the first 🤘
Very cool, been a fan of the movie since I first saw it in the late 80s on vhs when I was a kid
I love TCM 2. My uncle worked in a video store back in the 80s and gave me a TCM 2 soundtrack cassette tape, which I still have to this day. It was my introduction to the TCM movies. I didn't actually see TCM 2 until the early 90s when I was a little older, but it's a great movie and doesn't always get enough love. The first one and part 2 are my favorites of the franchise, by far. Hopefully, one day, we'll get to see a release of "All American Massacre." It's a shame that one was never finished and released.
I doubt they will ever be officially released.
TCM2 soundtrack is 5 stars!
Your Chop Top is brilliant!!!
What a fun journey through one of my favorite horror movies, thank you Sean!
TCM 2 was definitely a cinematic piece of…… if there ever was one!
Very interesting and funny. Brilliantly presented!
Just watched your video with The Woo, glad I found your channel. Awesome content man.
Thank you!
This one never gets old man. Thank you gets me through a lot of hard times in life
Come to Nova Scotia and do My Bloody Valentine!
Just a great job keep up your hard work I have been a fan for years....
I have to admit your dedication and style of editing really adds a quality to you videos that's head and shoulders above the rest! Now that I said that back to the regular scheduled comments of being a d**k.
I saw this film when it first came out and still think it’s the best of the chainsaw movies (my favorite anyway) I liked the humor and characters plus it had some great horror and atmospheric vibe. I’m glad that it’s finally getting the recognition it deserves in the annals of horror movie history. 👍💯
Yess, i don't like when people say poltergiest feels nothing like a tobe hooper film and only a Spielberg film, yes it feels like Spielberg but Texas chainsaw 2 and poltergiest both have that awesome 80s giddy horror feel that only Tobe hooper could create.
Followed your series for years. Thank you for bringing it back, new name. Glad I got to meet you at Kansas City Crypticon. Hope to see you again
Always been a big Dennis Hopper fan and I loved him in this. Love the video Sean great work!
Cool video. Sad some of the buildings are gone.
Awesome job. Thanks for taking us around.
I saw this on the vinegar syndrome 4K disc of TCM2!
Sean, thank you so very much for this! you really put the work in!
@@branscombe_ You are very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
My first Texas Chainsaw film as a kid in the mid 80s, scary and fun. I remember thinking what heck happened to everyone with a classic Chainsaw dubious ending👍 . I met Bill Moseley at Nuke the Fridge over at Frank and Sons . Ultimate cult classic, I can't even call this classic a cult film it's such an awesome sequel 👍🌴😎🎬
This was awesome! Huge TCM2 fan!
This was so much fun! Thank you for all the amazing videos you do!!!
Love this film!! It's one of my favorites!!
I would kill to hear Sean's commentary over the Horror's Hallowed Ground episodes. I just saw it mentioned in the video description of an earlier episode as a possibility during the pandemic. I had no idea there was any kind of bad blood regarding the content of some of the episodes. These are by far the best features of any Scream Factory blu-ray and they are lucky to have the content. I've purchased their blu-rays specifically for HHG.
Its amazing how time just simply erases history...good video man!
Sean for half a second when you were talking with Carolina Williams, I thought you were gonna flush. 😂
1 of my fav movies.. Luv it
I have to visit these filming locations.
This is a great channel you should be much bigger!
Thank you. Help spread the word!
Great job on all of the locations one of my all-time favorite movies!!
This was one of the best then & now locations. That I’ve ever seen great detailing, editing and story telling! Thanks for this one, one of my favorite movies. But I gotta question! Where’s the little fryhouse?! Lol 😆
Sadly the fry house was eaten soon after filming.
This was a brilliant video, can't wait to see more!!
I'm so psyched to see this episode. I have to finally finish watching the actual film.
Tom Morga's a great guy, met him at a con a few years back. Being a HUGE Ghostbusters fan i was mainly talking to him about being Egon's stunt double. But i do remember one thing, his handler quite rudely demanded i pay for my autographs now, and i said, this guys played Jason, Michael Myers and Leatherface, you really think i;m gonna run off :)
Beginning Narration $PRICELESS$ 🙂💓
This is awesome bro thanx!!!
Thanks for uploading these HHG episodes!
Great stuff!! Very relevant to my interests. Also found you via Woo. Looking forward to your content!
Great job bro I always wonder if that battle land place was still around, Thanks buddy boy.
I know this is an old video but Chainsaw 2 is my favorite of all the iterations.
I saw this before the original as a kid, and I absolutely loved it. They had me at Dennis Hopper dual wielding chainsaw fights.
I loved every single minute of this Sean, not only do I love movie locations you make things entertaining as well as your knowledge. Brillaint
Thanks for uploading all of this man!
This was great !! Is Stretch from Austin ? Assuming she is when she said she was walking down the street some time back . Great job
Amazing content the best
"It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good"
Ren and Stimpy
Epic video man 🤘
Came here from Adam's channel. Instant subscribe.
Wow, this was so cool. I love horror movies and I just recently seen this movie. And I can't believe Chop Top is Otis lol!!
yeah this is my fav horror movie of all time
Sean, thank you! I knew of you from your Halloween and The Fog episodes for the Blu-ray releases. Great job as always.
You should do an episode for ONE DARK NIGHT with Meg Tilly. The graveyard is in L.A. The address is clearly in a shot of the movie where the caretaker locks the gate in the evening. I believe the same cemetery was used in HORROR STAR (Frightmare) starring Ferdinand Mayne as the aging actor who dies and comes back to wreak havoc on a horror movie fan club who stole his body from the mausoleum. Great stuff. lol
Ohhh, my achin' banana!!🍌
Im curious as to what happened to the Sawyers blue truck??? I would love to own it or make a similar build.
I love TCM2. Maybe it’s because I saw it at such a young age and the tongue in cheek humor of it appealed to my young mind. In my teens I began to respect it because of how different of a tone to the original it had. By that time I had seen alien/aliens, gremlins/gremlins 2 and saw that TCM 2 wasn’t unique in how it went it’s own way. As Aliens went more action horror compared to the spooky old house feel of Aliens or how Gremlins 2 went full Merry Melodies compared to the dark humor of Gremlins. TCM was revolutionary and instead of doing the same movie and tone all over again Tobe Hooper decided to make it it’s own animal by giving it a twisted dark humor vibe.
While TCM is an intense horror flick, TCM 2 is just a fun movie.
I just subscribed man good stuff . Saw you on Adam the woo channel 🍺
Yes! Love it
All this building over something that in the future no one will ever know that their favorite horror film location was there just makes me want to remember what happened with Cabrini green.And another feeling that times are changing and that if you want to shoot in the place where that last horror film was shot you better get started.
I found you from Adam the woo!(:
This is so awesome these are finally in youtube for all to see, thank you. Any chance of a phantasm one?
For sure.
I love part 2 !!
A fuckin truck stop .....ya like texas needs more of those lol
I remember watching this movie as a kid literally scaring the shit out me . Lol
The car chase…..
13:18 Oh my god! Sean slaughtered the cameraman! You bastard! XD XD XD XD LOL
Oh cool. At 15:05 I take that route to one of my jobs every other day. Austin is nice. The drivers suck though.
I love this stuff!
I thought the radio station was on Guadalupe and the back alleyway of 7ths street . The building looked like the radiostation. I was told that by a local pawn shop owner, when I was looking for guitars a few summers ago .
Not that I've ever heard. I'm going off of what Stretch herself, Caroline Williams told me.
@@malfuncsean that's cool you got her on. I have looked at austin archive photos from 60s through 89. And that building is not there. I analyzed ariel shots from planes and helicopters. Until there is archeology or historical data, I will always wonder. I really enjoy your show and hope you can make more.
@@teemoleague907 Well hey if you ever find concrete proof it was elsewhere please let me know. She very well could have been mistaken.
@@malfuncsean so I was wrong and you were close. The radio station was shot on 3rd street west between Guadalupe and San antonio street. One block over. It would of been directly across the liberty lunch and Lamar building but closer to third street and closer to the parking garage on san antonio. Here's the pic you can line up up on google map looking towards the westside of the hobby jr building. www.imdb.com/title/tt0092076/mediaviewer/rm2500835585/
@@malfuncsean 401 W 3rd St, Austin, TX 78701
Hey Sean i hope run in to some day and get an photo from you take care
epic man at the very end when she swing the chainsaw you can see behind something moving up to her.
Smoke is all it is bro
KICK ASS!!! Keep up the GREAT work!!!
Love tcm part 2 ...might be my favorite. Not sure tho
Did you get that Lefty Request Record? Lol, the one they were Honking out all Day.
Damn, not much left. Still a very enjoyable video. Props!
Man, one of the best ones yet!
Seeing Caroline was cool she's still hot!
Loved how you showed the old man's reaction I always loved that part 😆
Man they did a hell of a job convincing my 13 yr old self back in '86 that radio station was way out in the boonies...nope: downtown Austin! Its been yrs since ive seen this but was the station said to be urban in the film?????
I swear that Mean Eyed Cat Bar reminds me of the bar from Death Proof. Exterior and Interior, but it was filmed in an entirely different location.
funny to think that the farmer honking at them that they tried to run off the road was Chop Top going out for a cruise!
I love Tcm2 🥰
17:23 What is name this music?
Was that Michael “slipcase” felsher doing some narration at the beginning
Love this🖤
The only dislike is from Seal; just pissed about Fletcher.
i'm here checking out the videos thanks to adam
Glad to have you!
@@malfuncsean i subbed and watching your videos
I would love to see the "Carrie". Horror Hallowed Grounds
Absolutely Beautiful. Thank you. So fucking kool. More more.
21:30 : How exactly does a full frame cut of the movie reveal more than the original widescreen presentation? *confused*
Your content is great! Have you ever made vlogs on the filming locations for Sleep Away Camp and the Friday The 13th movies?