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Aug 27, 2017 · The director Tobe Hooper, who died Saturday at 74, will always be remembered for one spectacularly terrifying low-budget horror film, and that’s because it happens to be one of the most uncanny ...
Aug 27, 2017 · Filmmaker Tobe Hooper, whose 1974 gore film "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" was a trailblazer in the horror genre, has died. He was 74. The Los Angeles County coroner's office said that Hooper died ...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [note 1] is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on ...
Tobe Hooper was born in Austin, Texas, to Lois Belle (Crosby) and Norman William Ray Hooper, who owned a theater in San Angelo. He spent the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman. In 1974, he organized a small cast that was made up of college teachers and students, and then he and Kim Henkel made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ...
Jan 25, 2021 · Tobe Hooper (1943-2017) retains a curious position in American genre cinema. He’s acknowledged as a master of horror by fans and fellow directors, yet beyond era-defining classics The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Poltergeist (1982) the Austin native’s filmography might look short on quality. But digging deeper into his back catalogue ...
Jun 1, 2021 · Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder thanks to his 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hooper nevertheless was instrumental in the development of a robust and deeply political horror genre from the 1960s until his death in 2017.
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Aug 27, 2017 · Tobe would nod agreement, and that became the process of collaboration” — a controversy of authorship was kicked up. Some actors sided with Hooper, some crew and executives with Spielberg.
