Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

[Torgo]

I've never seen the second Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.
It was one of those movies that managed to slip through the cracks.

I've only seen the original and the remake.
And I also saw the one with Renee Zellweger.

Stay away from part 3.   It's only redeeming quality to see an early-in-his-career Viggo Mortensen slumming it.

Part 4 was equally unwatchable.

I hated the remake and haven't seen the prequel to the remake (though I will on DVD as I'm a huge R. Lee Ermey fan.)   

[Menard]

Stay away from part 3.   It's only redeeming quality to see an early-in-his-career Viggo Mortensen slumming it.

I have to seriously disagree with that. Part 3 was the best of the sequels. It was the only one which followed the continuity from the original. Hooper himself could not even keep any continuity. If you are rating the movies on gore alone, then part 2 is the goriest, but that is a pretty poor way to rate movies.

Part 4 was equally unwatchable.

I hated the remake and haven't seen the prequel to the remake (though I will on DVD as I'm a huge R. Lee Ermey fan.)   

Agreed on both accounts. The only, to borrow from you, redeeming quality of part 4 is the appearance of Paul Partain (Franklin in the original) as an orderly pushing a gurney with a woman on it who looks like Marilyn Burns (though credited as anonymous). There is an irony in it that Franklin is now pushing Sally.

All I have to say about the remake is Michael Bay, and that says enough by itself.

[the ghoul]

I love TCM 2.  I like it just as much as part 1, but probably not more.  The movies are almost too different from each other to even compare them.  TCM 2 makes me laugh more, but TCM 1 is creepier.  I have little desire to see the third and fourth installments.  I have a feeling they are not worth the bother.