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).
Tobe Hooper Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tobe Hooper |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1943-01-25 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday | 2017-08-26 |
Tobe Hooper Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce | Himself | 2013-10-14 | Extensive documentary on the making of Tobe Hooper’s infamous 1985 science fiction flop LIFEFORCE. Features interviews with Hooper, producer Michael J… |
| Making I’m Dangerous Tonight | Himself | 2022-07-26 | Behind the scenes footage of I’m Dangerous Tonight. Footage shot by Stan Giesea and Eric H. Lasher… |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth | Himself | 2000-01-01 | A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre…. |
| The Martians Are Coming! – The Making of ‘Invaders from Mars’ | 2015-04-07 | Documentary about the making of Invaders from Mars… | |
| The Making of Poltergeist | self | A behind-the-scenes look at how some of the visual effects were accomplished in the feature film Poltergeist (1982)…. | |
| Also Starring Austin | 2018-05-05 | ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community’s rapidly changing built and natural environment and unique,… | |
| Lost in the Garden of the World | Himself | 1975-06-02 | Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed… |
| We Blew It | Self | 2017-11-08 | How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960’s and 1970’s? What do the people who lived… |
| The Windsplitter | Joby | 1971-06-11 | Bobby Joe Smith returns to his home in a small town, having changed his name, his outlook on life, and gained a career as a Hollywood star. Bobby Joe … |
| AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 | Himself | 2020-04-08 | Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying… |
| The American Nightmare | Himself | 2000-09-11 | An examination into the nature of 1960’s-70’s horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society…. |
| Masters of Horror | Tobe HOOPER | 2002-11-06 | Documentary showcasing the work of prominent film directors in the horror genre. Featuring interviews with the directors, behind the scenes footage an… |
| The Perfect Scary Movie | Himself | 2005-10-29 | A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre…. |
| Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Himself | 2014-10-06 | A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yor… |
| Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi | Self | 2020-05-19 | The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking … |
| Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film | Self | 2000-10-28 | Documentary tracing the rise of the ‘slasher’ movie…. |
| AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: LATER IN L.A. | Himself | 2020-04-22 | Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: LATER IN L.A. is a brand new compilation of the mo… |
| Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors | Himself | 1986-01-01 | Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention…. |
| Body Bags | Morgue Worker #2 | 1993-08-07 | Three tales, each more terrifying than the last. . . . A woman who is stalked by an axe-weilding maniac . . . a man who pays the ultimate price fo… |
| Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever | Himself | 2012-10-07 | A celebration of slasher cinema – from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre’s forgotten cult classics, deconstruc… |
| Sleepwalkers | Forensic Tech | 1992-04-10 | Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers – able to stay alive only … |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Man in Hotel Corridor | 1986-08-22 | Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally distur… |
| Coming to America | Party Guest | 1988-06-29 | An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess… and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disgui… |
Tobe Hooper Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Poltergeist | Director | 1982-06-04 | Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for th… |
| Shadow Realm | Director | 2002-07-27 | Shadow Realm is a compilation of four episodes of the short-lived Fox Network television series Night Visions. Each episode contained two stories and … |
| Eaten Alive | Director | 1976-12-25 | A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds… |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Director | 1974-10-01 | When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to invest… |
| Body Bags | Director | 1993-08-07 | Three tales, each more terrifying than the last. . . . A woman who is stalked by an axe-weilding maniac . . . a man who pays the ultimate price fo… |
| Invaders from Mars | Director | 1986-06-06 | 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… |
| Lifeforce | Director | 1985-06-21 | A space shuttle mission investigating Halley’s Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London’s population into zo… |
| The Funhouse | Director | 1981-03-13 | Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz … |
| The Mangler | Director | 1995-03-03 | When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry happens, detective John Hunton investigates. While he tries to solve the mystery, Bill … |
| Crocodile | Director | 2000-12-26 | A group of friends including Brady Turner, Claire and Duncan McKay go out on a boat trip on a lake in Southern California, but their joyful weekend tu… |
| Mortuary | Director | 2005-08-08 | A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the p… |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Director | 1986-08-22 | Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally distur… |
| Toolbox Murders | Director | 2004-11-12 | Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable, but now decaying, apartment block in Hollywood, and soon realise that a number of young resi… |
| Spontaneous Combustion | Director | 1990-02-23 | 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 un… |
| Night Terrors | Director | 1993-11-09 | A young girl travels to Cairo to visit her father, and becomes unwillingly involved with a bizarre sadomasochistic cult led by the charismatic Paul Ch… |
| Eggshells | Director | 1969-01-01 | A group of hippie students in Austin, Texas move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it’s influencing them…. |
| The Apartment Complex | Director | 1999-10-31 | A graduate student named Stan becomes the manager of an apartment complex which is quite uncommon. The tenants are all quite eccentric and uncommon ch… |
| I’m Dangerous Tonight | Director | 1990-08-08 | 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. Whoev… |
| The Heisters | Director | 1964-01-01 | The teenage Tobe Hooper’s first film was a slapstick comedy. This farcical low-budget short is about three thieves who are wanted dead or alive. A b… |
| Djinn | Director | 2013-10-31 | Desperate to put the traumatic loss of their infant child behind them, newlywed couple Khalid and Salama return to their home in the United Arab Emira… |
| The Damned Thing | Director | 2006-10-27 | The Damned Thing, inspired by Ambrose Bierce’s classic short-story of the same title, is the apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force that devastates She… |
| Dance of the Dead | Director | 2005-11-11 | In a post apocalyptic society, seventeen year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When two couples of … |
| Peter Paul and Mary: The Song Is Love | Director | 1971-04-04 | A documentary about the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary…. |
| Down Friday Street | Director | 1966-01-01 | Experimental documentary by Tobe Hooper and collaborators…. |
| The Nightmare Begins Again | Director | 1993-03-23 | When Fred Krueger is set free on a technicality, the parents of the children he murdered take matters into their own hands, while a high school track … |
| Director | Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in … | ||
| Director | The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existenc… | ||
| Director | An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror…. | ||
| Director | Freddy’s Nightmares is an American horror anthology series, which aired in syndication from October 1988 until March 1990. A spin-off from the Nightma… | ||
| Director | Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as… | ||
| Director | Night Visions is an hour-long, American television horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of … | ||
| Director | Nowhere Man is an American television series that aired from 1995 to 1996 starring Bruce Greenwood. Created by Lawrence Hertzog, the series aired Mond… | ||
| Director | Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hou… | ||
| Director | Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997. It is a spin-off of po… | ||
| Director | Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying my… | ||
| Director | A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg wi… | ||
Tobe Hooper Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Producer | 1974-10-01 | When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to invest… |
| The Heisters | Producer | 1964-01-01 | The teenage Tobe Hooper’s first film was a slapstick comedy. This farcical low-budget short is about three thieves who are wanted dead or alive. A b… |
| Texas Chainsaw 3D | Executive Producer | 2013-01-03 | A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her … |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Co-Producer | 2003-05-21 | After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equal… |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning | Producer | 2006-10-05 | Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and … |
| Leatherface | Executive Producer | 2017-09-14 | A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equall… |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Co-Producer | 1986-08-22 | Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally distur… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Screenplay | 1974-10-01 | When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to invest… |
| Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III | Characters | 1990-01-12 | Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leath… |
| The Mangler | Screenplay | 1995-03-03 | When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry happens, detective John Hunton investigates. While he tries to solve the mystery, Bill … |
| Spontaneous Combustion | Story | 1990-02-23 | 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 un… |
| Spontaneous Combustion | Screenplay | 1990-02-23 | 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 un… |
| The Heisters | Writer | 1964-01-01 | The teenage Tobe Hooper’s first film was a slapstick comedy. This farcical low-budget short is about three thieves who are wanted dead or alive. A b… |
| Texas Chainsaw 3D | Characters | 2013-01-03 | A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her … |
| Eggshells | Writer | 1969-01-01 | A group of hippie students in Austin, Texas move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it’s influencing them…. |
| The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Characters | 1995-03-12 | Everyone’s favorite chainsaw-wielding psychopath, Leatherface, is back for more prom-night gore, and this time he’s joined by his bloodthirsty family…. |
| Leatherface | Characters | 2017-09-14 | A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equall… |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Characters | 2022-02-18 | After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded wo… |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Original Film Writer | 2003-05-21 | After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equal… |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Characters | 1986-08-22 | Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally distur… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Music | 1974-10-01 | When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to invest… |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Music | 1986-08-22 | Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally distur… |
| Eaten Alive | Music | 1976-12-25 | A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Peter Paul and Mary: The Song Is Love | Director of Photography | 1971-04-04 | A documentary about the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary…. |
| Eggshells | Cinematography | 1969-01-01 | A group of hippie students in Austin, Texas move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it’s influencing them…. |
| Down Friday Street | Cinematography | 1966-01-01 | Experimental documentary by Tobe Hooper and collaborators…. |
| Terrifier | In Memory Of | 2016-10-15 | On Halloween night, a young woman finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown…. |
| The Sawyer Massacre | Creator | An unofficial prequal to the 1974 hit movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. While recovering from the loss of someone close, Jimmy’s friends bring him t… | |
| The Heisters | Editor | 1964-01-01 | The teenage Tobe Hooper’s first film was a slapstick comedy. This farcical low-budget short is about three thieves who are wanted dead or alive. A b… |
| Eggshells | Editor | 1969-01-01 | A group of hippie students in Austin, Texas move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it’s influencing them…. |
| Peter Paul and Mary: The Song Is Love | Editor | 1971-04-04 | A documentary about the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary…. |
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