Tobe Hooper: The Films
Part 1 in a filmography series that heralds unsung horror auteurs
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- DirectorTobe HooperStarsTom BillupsNorris DomingueLarry RayTobe Hooper grew up in motels, hotels and movie theaters. He says he watched at least two films a day. Some of his favorite films were produced by the iconic British horror filmmakers at Hammer Films. THE HEISTERS (restored at 2K from a 35mm print) is Hooper's trippy, Looney Tunes send-up of those films. At the time Hooper was the only student in the University of Texas Austin film department. THE HEISTERS introduced him to Hollywood (he mixed the film at Todd-AO) and whetted his appetite for features. Five years later he would make his first narrative feature, EGGSHELLS.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsMahlon ForemanRon BarnhartAmy LesterExperimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsMarilyn BurnsEdwin NealAllen DanzigerFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsNeville BrandMel FerrerCarolyn JonesA psychotic redneck, who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
- StarsDavid SoulJames MasonLance KerwinA novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsElizabeth BerridgeShawn CarsonJeanne AustinFour teenagers visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement, but soon discover that nothing there is innocent or amusing.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsJoBeth WilliamsHeather O'RourkeCraig T. NelsonA family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsBilly IdolPromotional music video for "Dancing with Myself" by Billy Idol.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsSteve RailsbackMathilda MayPeter FirthA race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsKaren BlackHunter CarsonTimothy BottomsA boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsDennis HopperCaroline WilliamsJim SiedowA radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas marshal hunts them.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsBrad DourifCynthia BainJon CypherA 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 unexpected effects on him.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsMädchen AmickCorey ParkerDaisy HallWhen Amy turns an ancient Aztec priest's cloak into a dress, she discovers it's cursed and whoever wears it comes under its evil influence.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsRobert EnglundZoe TrillingAlona KimhiA woman visiting her father in Egypt becomes involved with Marquis De Sade's descendant and his terrifying cult.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterTobe HooperLarry SulkisStarsJohn CarpenterTom ArnoldTobe HooperThree short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsRobert EnglundTed LevineDaniel MatmorA laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsChad LoweFay MastersonObba BabatundéWhen a grad student takes a job managing an apartment complex, he discovers all the tenants are weirdos and there's a corpse in the bottom of the swimming pool.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsMark McLachlanCaitlin MartinChris SolariEight college students board a houseboat for their spring vacation that promises to be the best of their young lives...how many will survive?
- DirectorKeith GordonTobe HooperPaul ShapiroStarsMiguel FerrerMalcolm McDowellAnna HaganAnthology film created from two unaired episodes of Night Visions. A mental patient mustn't stop behaving in patterns. A maze on collage campus is actually a time portal. A town fears music. A court employee can hear thoughts of a killer.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsAngela BettisBrent RoamMarco RodríguezA historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsDan ByrdDenise CrosbyStephanie PattonA 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 place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsJessica LowndesGenevieve BuechnerJonathan TuckerIn a post-apocalyptic society, 17-year-old Peggy lives with her mom, who's overprotective since her young daughter Anna died. Peggy works at her mom's restaurant. When two punk couples come to the diner to eat, Peggy is attracted to Jak, who invites her to go out with him later. Without letting her mom know, Peggy goes out with Jak, and they go to a dark club, the Doom Room. The master of ceremony is the ringmaster of a freak show with dead people. The MC injects blood into the dead and they dance on a ring for the exalted audience. When Peggy sees her undead sister Anna dancing in the show, the MC discloses the truth about her presence in the circus.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsSean Patrick FlaneryMarisa CoughlanBrendan FletcherApocalyptic tale of a monstrous force which devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle's family and his small Texas town. Sheriff Reddle thinks there's a connection between this mysterious, invisible force which made his father kill his mother back in 1981, and he sets out to uncover and stop the so-called "damned thing" before it decimates the whole town by forcing the residents to kill each other and then finally... themselves.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsClaire CraftHelen LearyTheo MorrisonThe grand tale of a zombie holding a arm. He also travels the world learning about life, and the meaning of it all. He also meets a girl zombie holding a body. Will they fall in love? Will they complete that human body? Watch and find out.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsRazane JammalKhalid LaithAiysha HartAn Emirati couple return home from a trip and discover that their new apartment has been built on a site that is home to some malevolent beings.