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Name: Tobe Hooper  
   
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Date of Birth: 25th January 1943
   
Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA
   
Profession: Director
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

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 Chain Saw Massacre.

Before becoming a filmmaker, Hooper, a native of Austin, Texas, spent the 1960s as a documentary cameraman. He organized a small cast who were also college teachers and students, and then he and Kim Henkel made The Texas Chain Saw 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 Chain Saw Massacre landed him in Hollywood and it remains a horror film classic. Hooper rejoined the cast of Texas Chainsaw Massace and Kim Henkel for Eaten Alive (1976), a gory horror film with Mel Ferrer, William Finley and Marilyn Burns (who played the lead in Texas Chain Saw). 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 had great 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.

Poltergeist was perhaps a greater success than Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Three years later Hooper signed a three year contract with Menahem Golan and Cannon Films, and directed the apocalyptic Lifeforce (1985), the remake of Invaders from Mars and the sequel to his earlier film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986). Since then, Hooper has also directed two Robert Englund films: Night Terrors (1993) and The Mangler (1995), and has directed numerous horror television sitcoms. He also directed the pilot of Freddy's Nightmares, the television spin-off of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Since then Hooper has gone on to Direct the Pilot and Premiere episodes for such Sci-Fi series as "DARK SKIES' and once again working with Spielberg, the miniseries event "TAKEN"

Hooper's most recent effort is a remake of the exploitation classic The Toolbox Murders, which despite being a direct to video release has garnered very positive reviews.

Filmography

  • Zombies (2006) pre-production
  • Toolbox Murders (2005)
  • The Mangler (1995)
  • Night Terrors (1993)
  • Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
  • Invaders from Mars (1986)
  • Lifeforce (1985)
  • Poltergeist (1982)
  • The Funhouse (1981)
  • Eaten Alive (1977)
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  • Eggshells (1969)

External Link

Tobe Hooper's official website

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