Despite being banned from theaters at its initial 1974 release for its shocking violence, Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” remains among the most influential horror films in history — and ...

For a refresher, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of five young people on the trip of a lifetime: Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), her wheelchair user brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain), Pam ...

"You can make him stop!" "No we can't..." Dark Sky Films has revealed a new trailer celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre directed by Tobe Hooper.

In 1974, a college professor and aspiring filmmaker named Tobe Hooper released The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential horror movies ever ...

Tobe Hooper was one of the greats. If you haven’t read it yet, allow me to recommend Poltergeist by Jacob Trussell from DieDieBooks for some profound (and heartbreaking) insights into Hooper’s late ...

Despite the fact that Tobe Hooper directed several films per decade throughout the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, he’s really only remembered for two of them. 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was ...

One of those ’80s horror movies ripe for a remake, The Funhouse was also quite important for Hooper’s career trajectory. It was because of his work here (his first studio film) that Steven Spielberg ...

The horror movie locale has found a second life serving brunch. Located about 60 miles northwest of Austin in Kingsland, Texas, the Victorian home featured in the film has been transformed into Hooper ...

The director Tobe Hooper, who died Saturday at 74, will always be remembered for one spectacularly terrifying low-budget horror film, and that’s because it happens to be one of the most uncanny movies ...

A roundtable of talent behind the 1974 horror shocker tells IndieWire about its violence, scares, splatters, and legacy — including how some savvy budgeting led to the creation of the iconic ...

The late Tobe Hooper was as authentic a filmmaker as any. Sure, everyone knows The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but why I first fell in love with Hooper was everything else he helmed on the periphery.