Tobe Hooper

...horror flick - it's better than "Halloween." Just make sure that you watch the original, not the recent remake. "Eaten Alive" (1977): Tobe Hooper's scariest film is "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," but the director's creepiest is this story of a...

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...birth to the modern zombie in "Night of the Living Dead," with ripped-up zombies wandering the landscape. Only a few years later, Tobe Hooper gave us the weapon-wielding, ultraviolent slasher with "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Religion's...

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...indicating that I took over the project. While I was creatively involved in the entire production, Tobe Hooper alone was the director. Tobe Hooper, 1982 (saying he did everything his contract as director required of him): I don't...

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...shadow, and the simple glint of two eyes is enough to send everyone reeling. October 18 - Pieces (1982) In terms of gore, Tobe Hooper's seminal "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" comes up short by today's standards. It's a brutal, affecting...

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...it. Terri: Well I won't lie, I don't have high hopes for a remake. Jenni: They also wrote "The Toolbox Murders," directed by "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" helmer Tobe Hooper. I'll have to check that out, if only for Tobe. Jenni: Yep.

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...per-pic basis with "Chainsaw" rights-holders Bob Kuhn and Kim Henkel, the latter of whom wrote the original 1974 pic with director Tobe Hooper. Talks fell apart with Platinum Dunes. The Twisted Pictures deal is for multiple films, sources...

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...Corman, Jennifer Tilly, Joss Whedon, Rob Zombie, Karen Black, Clive Barker, Julie Benz, Shawnee Smith, Sherri Moon Zombie, Tobe Hooper, Bill Moseley and Corey Feldman. Chiller and Universal Studios Hollywood have also partnered to sponsor...

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The fest returns for its 45th edition this weekend. The Steven Spielberg-written-and-produced, Tobe Hooper-directed "Poltergeist" (1982) screens tonight at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre to open up the series "Apparitions,...

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...however, seems to recall a time - namely, the 1970s - when movies like Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left" (1972) and Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) shoved audiences into the ugliness, pointlessness and...

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...in which a family moves into a new house to the anger of some very old residents, reports ShockTillYouDrop.com. The new version of Tobe Hooper's haunted house blood fest is set to be released on Thanksgiving Weekend 2010. Writers finished...

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