Tobe Hooper
Birthday: 1943-01-25
Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA
Biography: 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).
Movies
Body Bags
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is t...
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Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth
A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre....
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The Making of Poltergeist
A behind-the-scenes look at how some of the visual effects were accomplished in the feature film Pol...
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Making I'm Dangerous Tonight
Behind the scenes footage of I'm Dangerous Tonight. Footage shot by Stan Giesea and Eric H. Lasher...
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Inside the Graveyard
This documentary by Kevin Ford explores the creation of Tobe Hooper's movie Mortuary (2005), followi...
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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The American Nightmare
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they refle...
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Spontaneous Combustion
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his...
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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention....
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them....
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We Blew It
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of t...
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Also Starring Austin
ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly ...
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Masters of Horror
Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interview...
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Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce
Extensive documentary on the making of Tobe Hooper's infamous 1985 science fiction flop LIFEFORCE. F...
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Sleepwalkers
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world....
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Lost in the Garden of the World
Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: ...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 i...
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the se...
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The Perfect Scary Movie
A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre....
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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many ...
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Coming to America
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his ...
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The Martians Are Coming!: The Making of 'Invaders from Mars'
Documentary about the making of the film Invaders from Mars (1986)....
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Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
Documentary tracing the rise of the 'slasher' movie....
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The Windsplitter
Bobby Joe Smith returns to his home in a small town, having changed his name, his outlook on life, a...
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...
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The Making Of Lifeforce
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the sci-fi classic Lifeforce, directed by Tobe Hoop...
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