Director Tobe Hooper (1943)

The horror film, The Mangler (1995), was directed and written by Tobe Hooper and Harry Alan Towers. It is based on Stephen King’s short story of the same name from his collection Night Shift (1978). The movie takes place in Gartley’s Blue Ribbon Laundry, where Bill Gartley owns a laundry press known as the Mangler. Trouble ensues when Sherry, Gartley’s niece, cuts herself while trying to avoid being crushed by an old ice box being carried past. This results in blood splattering onto the ...

The American black comedy slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), was co-composed and directed by Tobe Hooper, with a screenplay by L.M. Kit Carson. While on their way to the Dallas Cotton Bowl for the Texas-OU football game, two high school seniors named Buzz and Rick encounter a pickup truck on a desolate stretch of Texas highway. In their drunken state, they use their car phone to harass radio DJ Vanita ‘Stretch’ Brock live on air. Despite her attempts to get them to hang up, Stretch is forced to keep the line open. Suddenly, Leatherface appears ...

Salem’s Lot (1979) is an American two-part vampire miniseries based on the 1975 horror novel ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Directed by Tobe Hooper. At a church in Guatemala, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie are gathering holy water when they suddenly realize they are being pursued. Despite the ominous presence, they decide to stand their ground and confront it. Two years prior, Mears, a successful writer, returns to his hometown of Salem’s Lot, Maine. His plan is to research and write about the infamous Marsten House on the hill, known for its ...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is an American horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who also co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. In the early hours of August 18, 1973, a grave robber steals several remains from a nearby cemetery in Muerto County, Texas. The disturbing scene is spotted by a local resident at sunrise. As five young people travel through the area in a van – Sally Hardesty, Jerry, Pam, Kirk, and Franklin, Sally’s disabled brother- they make a stop at the cemetery to check on their grandfather’s grave. To their relief, ...