Tobe Hooper

Tobe Hooper
Date of Birth: 25 Jan 1943
Country: USA
Biography: Hooper achieved fame with the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which changed the genre forever and had audiences vomiting as they ran from theaters. He went on to Hollywood, enjoying great success with Salem's Lot and Poltergeist.
Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Actor), 24 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The story begins with five innocent kids on their way to checkout reports of grave robbing. As Sally, (Burns) her invalid brother Franklin, and three friends head out to inspect the gravesite of her family, they are soon side tracked on the ultimate journey of terror. One by one, they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface and his trusty chainsaw. The poster reads: "Who will survive and what will be left of them?" In this case, not much, and what is...well, becomes the main course. (House of Horrors)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
A radio host (Caroline Williams) is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall (Dennis Hopper) hunts them (imdb)
Poltergeist
A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts. (imdb)
Taken
Taken (2002) - TV Mini-Series
A sci-fi adventure that weaves together over 50 years of alien abductions into the story of three families' experiences.
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Salem's Lot (1979) - TV Mini-Series
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires. (imdb)
The Funhouse
Four teenage friends spent the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a frankenstein mask. (imdb)
Eaten Alive
A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people whom upset him or his business, and feeds their bodies to a large crocodile he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel. (imdb)
Lifeforce
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. (imdb)
Invaders from Mars
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines. (imdb)
Mortuary
The Doyle family moves to rural California to start a new life; perhaps a strange choice because their new life takes on the form of running the long abandoned Fowler Brothers Funeral Home. The locals fear the place, and there are whispers around town that the land the home lies on is haunted. The Doyle family will soon discover that something lurks beneath the soil-something that raises rotten corpses from their long forgotten graves and feeds on death itself. (imdb)
Dance of the Dead
In a post-apocalyptic American society, the population has been decimated by nuclear terrorist attacks and flesh-dissolving nuclear fallout. Among the ruins, a naive young teenager named Peggy (Jessica Lowndes) gets involved with a drug-stoked biker (Jonathan Tucker) and his friends, against her overprotective mother's protests... (imdb)
Toolbox Murders
Nell and her husband Steven are looking for a business aswell as a home, where they come across the Lusman Arms apartment block. They move in and begin renovationg the building, in which a series of wierd killings take place. When she finally discovers the supernatural evil behind it all, she gets more than she bargained for! (imdb)
The Mangler
Detective John Hunton is investigating an iron folding machine that has found a taste for eating people. While he tries to solve the mystery, Bill Gartley, the owner, wants to find new victims for his machine. (imdb)
Body Bags
Body Bags (1993) - TV Movie
Three short stories in the horror genre The first about a serial killer The second about a hair transplant going wrong The third about a base ball player (imdb)
The Damned Thing
The Damned Thing, inspired by Ambrose Bierce's classic short-story, is the apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force that devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle's family and his small Texas town. (Wikipedia)
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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. (imdb)
Spontaneous Combustion
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. (imdb)
Night Terrors
A young girl travels to Cairo to visit her father, and becomes unwillingly involved with a bizarre sadomasochistic cult led by the charismatic Paul Chevalier, who is a descendant of the Marquis de Sade. (imdb)
Crocodile
Crocodile (2000) - Direct-to-Video
Eight teenagers go out on a weekend boat trip on a remote lake in Southern California only to have it turn into a nightmare when they are stalked by a very large, monstrous man-eating crocodile after they disturb its nest, and soon they must band together in order to survive from the beast. (imdb)
The Apartment Complex
A graduate student named Stan becomes the manager of an apartment complex which is quite uncommon. The tenants are all quite eccentric and uncommon characters, and the place is quite run down in certain spots. The previous manager had disappeared in mysterious circumstances. When cleaning the mucky pool, Stan encounters a corpse. The odd detectives that come to investigate seem to blame him. Then more bizarre, potentially deadly occurrences happen. (imdb)
Eggshells
Directorial debut of Tobe Hooper. This film was believed to be lost but a print was recently found and was shown at SXSW 2009.
The Heisters
The Heisters (1964) - Short Film
Early 10 minute short from future Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper
Djinn
Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the UAE. Their new luxury apartment block, was built on the site of an old abandoned fishing village of the same name. Legend has it the village was abandoned after manevolant beings haunted its inhabitants. Unsettled by her new surroundings, Khalid worries his wife is failing to battle her personal demons - but could it be something far more sinister? (djinnmovie.ae)
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