10 Most Bad-ass Chainsaw Users In Film

What a fascinating career the late, great Dennis Hopper had. As the director and co-star of Easy Rider, he was at the forefront of the most revolutionary era of American cinema at the end of the 1960s. Yet, for anyone born a decade or more later, he was known first and foremost as one of the best bad guy actors around: Blue Velvet, Speed, Waterworld, Super Mario Bros (ahem).

Yet before all that, Hopper took one of his first big steps in that direction in Tobe Hooper's 1986 sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (first released barely a month before Blue Velvet).

This cartoonish, semi-comedic follow-up to the 1974 classic didn't cast Hopper as a villain in the strictest sense, but as an anti-hero, the father of one of the slaughtered kids of the original, whose hunger for revenge outstrips any sense of basic human decency or compassion.

And of course, if you're going up against enemies with chainsaws, best get a saw of your own: or several in Hopper's case, including a long one for the big game and shorter ones for close contact. These come into play in the final act, in one of the most enjoyable chainsaw battles ever filmed.