Tag: Tobe Hooper
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A Surprising Next Gen Cast Member Gave Star Trek’s Patrick Stewart Major Insecurity
Sir Patrick Stewart is a legend of stage and screen. By the time he took the defining role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” he had spent decades on the stage as an esteemed member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He won the Laurence Olivier Award in 1979 for his performance in…
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Poltergeist: The Chilling True Story That Inspired The 1982 Horror Classic
In Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist,” five-year-old Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), the youngest in the Freeling family, points at the television static and participates in an inexplicable conversation with the screen. Carol Anne repeats this ritual the next night and ominously declares, “They’re he-e-e-re” — this proclamation marks the beginning of the end for the Freelings, who…
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This ‘80s Horror Movie Had Its Star Swim in a Pool of Real Human Remains
The iconic 1982 movie Poltergeist, which may soon see a reboot via Amazon to redeem its poorly received 2015 remake, still maintains its often creepy, sometimes unpleasantly visceral, effect to this day. Directed by Tobe Hooper who was behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and both produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg, the film follows the…
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One of the Earliest Slasher Films Ended Its Director’s Career
When there is a discussion of what the first-ever slasher was, a lot of titles come up. John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 certainly changed everything and set off the subgenre, with Friday the 13th and its sequels leading the way through the 1980s. Still, Halloween wasn’t the first slasher. There had been others before it,…
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This Texas Chainsaw Massacre Director Almost Made a Spider-Man Movie
Long before the MCU got its stranglehold on the box office, Tobe Hooper, director of the classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, very nearly directed his own Spider-Man film. Really! The same filmmaker that envisioned Leatherface and his family of cannibals savagely murdering a group of teenagers like they were farm animals almost had his…