Tag Archives: Tobe Hooper

The 1970s saw the end of the reign of Hammer horror. That studio had kicked off its long-running success in 1957 with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein, which was followed the next year with Horror of Dracula. The ...

Bram Stoker’s Dracula contains many underriding themes, but one of the most obvious, certainly one of the most talked about, is the heavy element of xenophobia that the author injected into the text. Dracula is, after all, about a foreign ...

Tobe Hooper made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) with one specific intension in mind – to hate us and ruthlessly attack us, both psychologically and emotionally. The film’s sole intention is to drive us mad with its insane sights ...

Episode IV “CAN YOU SURVIVE…?” The Sound Of Fear moves into the realm of shock horror, with music scoring zombies and chainsaws sharing space with possessed children and a movement of films centred around the offspring of the devil. Episode ...

Quite early in his career, Tobe Hooper became a formidable director with the success of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. There are some folks who dislike this film for whatever reason, but it has been championed by enough ...

It is not surprising that the term ‘American Gothic’ still makes folk automatically think of the more traditional traps of British and European Gothic; moonlit castles, howling wolves, heaving bosoms, pitchfork wielding villagers and Michael Ripper. By contrast, American Gothic ...

I think it is safe to say that the last — and I mean absolutely last — thing you think about when you hear the words Tobe Hooper and Cannon Group together, is a children’s movie. But, that is exactly ...

Oil up your chainsaw, get your skin-mask out of the mothballs, and pile into the van because there is some news to celebrate. 2014 marks the anniversary of one of the most influential genre films of all time. MPI/Dark Sky ...

“Lick my plate, you dog dick!” Though often maligned or neglected alongside Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), his sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) has managed to rise to cult status due to its emphasis on black ...

In a strange, coincidental way, John Carpenter is a filmmaker whose work seems fitting for an anthology. Tight, moody and often times self-contained, his work often never carried Oscar-level drama whilst also providing some of the weightiest and most engrossing ...