The good news: Director Tobe Hooper has been invited to speak at a screening of Destiny Express, a movie he wrote and directed as a teenager, but that hasn’t seen the light of day in decades. And Hooper’s fans are ecstatic.The bad news: Destiny Express proves to be a killer . . . literally.As the death toll mounts, Tobe embarks on a desperate journey to understand the film’s thirty-year-old origins—and put an end to the strange ep...

El estreno de La matanza de Texas cambió de manera radical y definitiva el devenir del cine de terror, convirtiéndose en un nítido ejemplo de lo que el género ha constituido temática, narrativa y formalmente en su periodo moderno. Cuatro décadas después de su realización, La matanza de Texas continúa influyendo en nuevas generaciones de cineastas e infundiendo terror a aquellos espectadores que se acercan a ella por primera vez merced al intenso estado de sugestión en el que Hooper sume a ...

Préface de Jean-Baptiste Thoret.Massacre à la Tronçonneuse (1974) est considéré comme une véritable matrice de l’horreur moderne, une oeuvre tellement culte qu’elle a fini par éclipser le reste de la filmographie de son auteur. Pourtant, Tobe Hooper est loin d’être le réalisateur d’un seul film.Entre Poltergeist (1982), produit par Steven Spielberg dans le confort hollywoodien, et Mortuary (2005), son retour en grâce dans les sall...

A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country’s internal decay.Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder thanks to his 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hooper nevertheless was instrumental in th...

The sound of chainsaws revving on "haunted" Halloween trails has evoked untold screams since Tobe Hooper's 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the cinemas. Since that first take-no-prisoners horror movie, Hooper's reputation as a master of horror has been secured by his adaptations of Stephen King (Salem's Lot, 1978, and The Mangler, 1995), his blockbuster breakthrough Poltergeist (1982) and a variety of cult hits, from the underrated Lifeforce...