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Tobe Hooper is an American television and film director best known for his work in the horror film genre. His movies include Lifeforce
, Poltergeist
and the watershed exploitation classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Hooper, a native of Austin, Texas, spent the 1960s as a college teacher and documentary cameraman. He organized a small cast who were also college teachers and students, and then he and Kim Henkle made
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This film changed the horror film industry. Hooper based it upon the real life killings of Ed Gein, a cannibalistic killer responsible for the grisly murders of several people in the 1950s. Hooper's success with
Texas Chainsaw Massacre landed him in Hollywood and it remains a horror film classic. Hooper rejoined the cast of
Texas and with Kim Henkel again for Eaten Alive (1976), a gory horror film with Mel Ferrer, William Finley and Marilyn Burns (who played the lead in
Texas Chainsaw). The film centered around a caretaker of a motel who feeds his guests to his pet alligator. Also in the film was
Robert Englund. Hooper helped raise his career and worked with him again in the future.
Eaten Alive also won many awards at Horror Film Festivals.
Hooper was assigned to the Film Ventures International production of
The Dark (1979), a science fiction thriller. After only three days he was fired from the film and replaced with John Cardos. Instead, Hooper had greater success with
Stephen King's 1979 miniseries Salem's Lot. In 1981, Hooper directed the teen slasher film for Universal Pictures,
The Funhouse; despite its success, the film was a minor disappointment. In 1982, Hooper found greater success when
Steven Spielberg enlisted him to direct his production of
Poltergeist. It quickly became a top ranking major motion picture, though rumors persist that Spielberg himself had directed most of the film.
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LiteratureNew Yorker Film Festival: The 5 Scariest Movies Ever?
Ben Greenman of the New Yorker presents his list of the five scariest movies of all time. They are: 1. ?Texas Chainsaw Massacre,? Tobe Hooper (1974) 2. ?The Silence of the Lambs,? Jonathan Demme (1991) 3. ?The Body Snatcher,? Robert Wise (1945) 4. ?Night of the Hunter,? Charles Laughton (1955) 5. ?Mulholland Drive,? David Lynch (2001) David Lynch is the master of the eerie, which has also been called the uncanny, and his strongest films successfully deliver shock-horror at the conclusion of scenes that are either comically mundane or traditionally suspenseful. Many filmgoers remember ?Mulholland Drive? mainly for Robert Blake?s creepy performance or for the lesbian subplot with Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts, but the film?s signal moment comes in the Winkie?s scene, which uses a highly traditional location (a diner) and traditional suspense tricks (P.O.V. shots, menacing background music) as prelude to one horrible moment. One respondent to the in-office survey put it this way: I have seen the movie many times, and every time my chest tightens up and it occurs to me that I might actually die. He?s not alone. Retrocrush.com selected this scene as the scariest moment in the history of film. Mulholland Drive is a great movie, but as far as I recall Robert Blake was in Lost Highway, not Mulholland Drive. The 5 Scariest Movies Ever?...
Published: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:36:11 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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