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Tobe Hooper

Tobe Hooper

Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. His works include the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), along with its first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986); the three-time Emmy-nominated Stephen King film adaptation Salem's Lot (1979); and the three-time Academy Award-nominated, Steven Spielberg-produced Poltergeist (1982).

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Movies Made By Tobe Hooper (36)

The Sawyer Massacre (2022)

An unofficial prequal to the 1974 hit movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. While recovering from the loss of someone close, Jimmy's friends bring him to the Texas countryside to escape city life. In need of supplies for their cabin, they ascend to a gas sta ...

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town. ...

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Terrifier (2018)

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way. ...

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Leatherface (2017)

A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy ...

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Djinn (2013)

Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the United Arab Emirates. Unknown to the couple, their new luxury apartment block, Al Hamra, was built on the site of an old ab ...

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Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth co ...

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Nunca más asistas a este tipo de fiestas (2010)

A massacre tinted Cascallares with blood and time covered the events with a cloak of silence. Ten years later, a group returns to the place to investigate. They will soon turn into corpses one by one. History repeats itself. ...

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The Damned Thing (2006)

Sheriff Reddle thinks there's a connection between a mysterious, invisible force that made his father kill his mother back in 1981. He sets out to uncover and stop the so-called "dammed thing" before it decimates the whole town by forcing the residents to ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of ...

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Dance of the Dead (2005)

In a post-apocalyptic society, seventeen-year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When punks enter the restaurant, and one takes an interest in her, Peggy makes a decision that will change her life forever. ...

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Mortuary (2005)

A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground. ...

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Toolbox Murders (2004)

A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. ...

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The Nightmare Ends on Halloween (2004)

Freddy Krueger finds himself stuck in limbo after being defeated by Jason Voorhees. Freddy tries to convince Michael Myers to do his dirty work and kill the children of Elm Street. However, a ferocious battle to the death between the two terror titans occu ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers. ...

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Shadow Realm (2002)

Shadow Realm is a compilation of two episodes planned for the short-lived Fox Network television series Night Visions. Each episode contained two stories and were originally hosted by musician/actor/writer Henry Rollins. The Sci-Fi Channel acquired the rig ...

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Crocodile (2000)

Eight college students board a houseboat for spring break that promises to be the best of their young lives...how many will survive? ...

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The Apartment Complex (1999)

A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments. ...

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Dark Skies (1996)

In 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat. ...

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The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1995)

A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths. ...

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The Mangler (1995)

A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies. ...

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Night Terrors (1993)

A woman visiting her father in Egypt becomes involved with the Marquis de Sade's descendant and his terrifying cult. ...

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Body Bags (1993)

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer ...

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The Nightmare Begins Again (1993)

When Fred Krueger is set free on a technicality, the parents of the children he murdered take matters into their own hands, while a high school track star haunted by her mother's untimely death receives her mother's amulet that unlocks her ambitions and un ...

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I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)

An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost. ...

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Spontaneous Combustion (1990)

A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. ...

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Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road were they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his family. ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them. ...

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Invaders from Mars (1986)

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants. ...

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Lifeforce (1985)

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos. ...

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The Funhouse (1981)

Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ride, the teens wi ...

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Eaten Alive (1976)

A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel. ...

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. ...

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Eggshells (1971)

An experimental allegory about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into a big old house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them. ...

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Peter Paul and Mary: The Song Is Love (1971)

A behind the scenes look at popular folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary. Accompanying the group on tour across the country, Hooper captures members Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers rehearsing and performing as well as appearing at civil rights a ...

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Down Friday Street (1966)

Experimental documentary by Tobe Hooper and collaborators. ...

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The Heisters (1965)

The teenage Tobe Hooper's first film was a slapstick comedy. This farcical low-budget short is about three thieves who are wanted dead or alive. A bit Three Stooges, a bit Chaplin and a bit Keaton! ...

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Movies Starring Tobe Hooper (25)

Making I'm Dangerous Tonight (2022)

Behind the scenes footage of I'm Dangerous Tonight. Footage shot by Stan Giesea and Eric H. ...

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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi (2020)

The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as "Blad ...

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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. (2020)

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: LATER IN L.A. is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you'll see this week. For our second tape, we've returned to the ...

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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1 (2020)

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you'll see this week. For our kick-off tape, we've curated an hour-long joyride ...

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Also Starring Austin (2018)

ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and unique, enduring culture. ...

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We Blew It (2017)

How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey t ...

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The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars' (2015)

Documentary about the making of the film Invaders from Mars (1986). ...

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. ...

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Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce (2013)

Extensive documentary on the making of Tobe Hooper's infamous 1985 science fiction flop LIFEFORCE. Features interviews with Hooper, producer Michael J. Kagan, editor John Grover, actors Aubrey Morris and Nicholas Ball, makeup artist Sandra Exelby, screenwr ...

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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2012)

A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and ra ...

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Inside the Graveyard (2006)

This documentary by Kevin Ford explores the creation of Tobe Hooper's movie Mortuary (2005), following Hooper closely through every step of the production from start to finish. ...

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The Perfect Scary Movie (2005)

A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre. ...

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Masters of Horror (2002)

Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interviews with the directors, behind the scenes footage and clips from popular horror films, and hosted by Bruce Campbell, star of The Evil Dead (1981). ...

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Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film (2000)

Documentary tracing the rise of the 'slasher' movie. ...

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Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000)

A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ...

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The American Nightmare (2000)

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society. ...

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Body Bags (1993)

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer ...

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Sleepwalkers (1992)

Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while sea ...

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Spontaneous Combustion (1990)

A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. ...

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Coming to America (1988)

An African prince decides it's time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them. ...

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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors (1986)

Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention. ...

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The Making of Poltergeist (1982)

A behind-the-scenes look at how some of the visual effects were accomplished in the feature film Poltergeist (1982). ...

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Lost in the Garden of the World (1975)

Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed to score interviews with some of the festival's emerging talents, indulging their own cinematic dreams in ...

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The Windsplitter (1971)

Bobby Joe Smith returns to his home in a small town, having changed his name, his outlook on life, and gained a career as a Hollywood star. Bobby Joe finds a renewed love in Jenny Jenkins, his childhood sweetheart, whose father is the town reverend and who ...

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