Tobe Hooper, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' director, dies at 74

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LOS ANGELES – Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, has died. He was 74.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office says Hooper died Saturday in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. It was reported as a natural death.

Hooper and contemporaries like George Romero crafted some of the scariest nightmares that ever haunted moviegoers. He directed 1982's "Poltergeist" from a script by Steven Spielberg and was behind the 1979 miniseries "Salem's Lot," from Stephen King's novel.

But Hooper was best known for 1974's "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Made for less than $300,000, the tale of the Texas cannibal Leatherface inspired an entire genre of horror films.

 

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Seen here with Mick Garris, Stephen King & Clive Barker (Sleepwalkers, 1992)

 

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[h=3]Films[/h]

• Eggshells (1969)
• The Song is Love (1969)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• Eaten Alive (1977)
• The Funhouse (1981)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• Invaders from Mars (1986)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
• Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
• Night Terrors (1993)
• Body Bags (1993)
• The Mangler (1995)
• The Apartment Complex (1999)
• Crocodile (2000)
• Toolbox Murders (2004)
• Mortuary (2006)
• Djinn (2013)

 

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[h=3]Television[/h]

• Salem's Lot (1979)
• Amazing Stories (1987) — Episode: "Miss Stardust"
• The Equalizer (1987) — Episode: "No Place Like Home"
• Freddy's Nightmares (1988) — Episode: "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
• I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
• Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories (1991)
• Tales from the Crypt (1991) — Episode: "Dead Wait"
• Nowhere Man (1995) — Episode: "Turnabout" / "Absolute Zero"
• Dark Skies (1997) — Episode: "The Awakening"
• Perversions of Science (1997) — Episode: "Panic"
• The Others (2000) — Episode: "Souls on Board"
• Night Visions (2002) — Episode: "Cargo" / "The Maze"
• Taken (2002) — Episode: "Beyond the Sky"
• Masters of Horror (2005–2006) — Episode: "Dance of the Dead" / "The Damned Thing"

 

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[tanner12oz]

Not alot of flicks have made me uncomfortable but this is one of them. Holds up well over time also..this was the saw of 3 decades ago. Great flick

 

[PoundFoolish]

I am sure I will have many disagree but people whom write/direct, etc horror/terror stories have ZERO talent to me. How hard is it write that shit? Please.