Tobe Hooper
William Tobe Hooper ( born January 25, 1943 in Austin, Texas) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter who works primarily in the genre of horror films. His best-known films are The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Eng. Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Chainsaw Massacre, 1974) and Poltergeist (1982).
Life
Early years
Hooper studied film and drama at the University of Texas and Dallas. In the early years of his career he made short films, among others, the Abyss (1959) and Heister (1963 ) as well as documentaries for television, including a film about the band Peter, Paul and Mary. His first feature film Eggshells (1969 ) on a hippie commune was indeed honored at the Atlanta Film Festival, but did not find a lender. Frustrated by this experience decided Hooper, to make a film in a proven genre that would open him the doors to professional productions in Hollywood.
Career
Together with Kim Henkel, Eggshells his co- author, Hooper developed the screenplay for a horror movie. In 1973, he and Henkel founded the production company "Vortex Inc.", and helped Bill Parsley of Texas Tech University to provide the startup budget ( totaling approximately U.S. $ 80,000 ) on the legs. In October 1974, the finished film as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre began in the American cinema and developed, thanks to a clever advertising campaign, a surprise success. Because of the opaque practices to rent Bryanston Pictures saw the producers and the percentage involved in the competition cast and crew only a fraction of the money they are entitled to. On the part of the critics, the film was partially attacked violently, now he is considered a classic of its genre.
In 1979, Tobe Hooper has to burn another success with the miniseries Stephen King 's novel Salem to that was evaluated in Europe as a feature film. In contrast, his films Blood Frenzy and The Cabinet of horror from the audience and the critics were only moderately or not at all accepted. 1982 hired Steven Spielberg Hooper as director for Poltergeist, his biggest commercial success, however, Spielberg left him little artistic leeway and expelled him from the post-production. 1983 Hooper turned a music video for Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself Single. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 ( 1986), the sequel to his hit film from 1974, was produced relatively complicated with a budget of nearly 5 million U.S. dollars, however, disappointed both financially and artistically, as his other two films for the production company Cannon Films, Life Force - The deadly threat and invasion from Mars.
Since the late 1980s, Hooper turned again concentrated in lower -budgeted films and episodes of television series, so in 2002 for Steven Spielberg's miniseries Taken. He also worked as a producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), the remake of his film from 1974, and the prequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), although fell during the criticism, however, at the box office than most proved profitable.
In 2011, Hooper published a horror novel Midnight Movie and gave his début as a novelist. The German translation appeared in 2012 under the same title.
On October 25, 2013 Hoopers latest film Djinn, with whom he takes back to his usual horror genre, premiered at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film was made entirely in the United Arab Emirates, which mittrugen the cost of film production to a large extent. However, no start date of the horror shocker is known for Germany.
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Hopper was interviewed for the film The American Nightmare.