Tobe Hooper



""No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.""

Tobe Hooper is a film director, who primarily works in the horror and scifi genres.

He became famous after his low-budget debut The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1974 which opened the way for him to the Hollywood and is cited as a horror classic. It was also a great inspiration for Slasher Movies. After doing couple films with minor success, he collabrated with Steven Spielberg and did his second famous work; Poltergeist in 1982. Afterwards his popularity declined, partially because his work on Poltergeist was believed to be done by Spielberg.

After the eighties he has worked mostly on television, with an occasional movie here and there.

Filmography:

 * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
 * Eaten Alive (1977)
 * Salems Lot (1979)
 * The Funhouse (1981)
 * Poltergeist (1982)
 * Lifeforce (1985)
 * Invaders from Mars (1986)
 * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
 * Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
 * I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
 * Body Bags (1993)
 * Night Terrors (1995)
 * The Mangler (1995)
 * The Apartment Complex (1999)
 * Crocodile (2000)
 * Shadow Realm (2002)
 * The Toolbox Murders (2004)
 * Mortuary (2005)
 * Djinn (2012)

Televison

 * Amazing Stories episode "Miss Stardust" (1987)
 * The Equalizer episode "No Place Like Home" (1988)
 * Freddy's Nightmares episode "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (1988)
 * Tales from the Crypt episode "Dead Wait" (1991)
 * Nowhere Man episodes "Absolute Zero" and "Turnabout" (both 1995)
 * Dark Skies pilot episode "The Awakening" (1996)
 * The Others episode "Souls on Board (2000)
 * Night Visions episodes "The Maze" and "Cargo" (both 2002)
 * Taken episode "Beyond the Sky" (2002)
 * Masters of Horror episodes "Dance of the Dead" and "The Damned Thing" (2005 and 2006)

Other Works:

 * Music video for Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" (1981)