Film fans know Tobe Hooper as the director of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," the horrifying 1974 movie about a mask-wearing killer and his creepy, cannibalistic family. But years before he made that ...

"I thought that there was an amazing opportunity to work in a very emotional way with this film, because of the way it combines this extraordinary story with the power and transcendence and pull of ...

The late Tobe Hooper had such a fascinating career. He helmed one of the defining horror films of the 1970s with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and was also behind Poltergeist, which proved to be one of ...

This is FRESH AIR. We'll conclude today's edition of our 30th anniversary retrospective with a 1988 interview that has become an obituary. Tobe Hooper, who's best known as the writer and director of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. He tells Empire magazine, "We'd only finished shooting in March, so all the visual ...

Tobe Hooper was desperate to come up with an idea for a scary film when, standing in front of a chain saw display in a hardware store, he had his eureka moment. It was Christmas 1973 and everywhere he ...

Detailing the life and loves of the first individual known to undergo gender affirmation surgery, Focus Features’ The Danish Girl vaults right into the Oscar race in a year that has seen transgender ...

The “In Memoriam” segment at the Oscars on Sunday omitted “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Poltergeist” director Tobe Hooper, angering fans of his on Twitter. “DID I MISS TOBE HOOPER OR AM I GOING TO ...

Tom Hooper will direct and produce a movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” for Universal and Working Title. Producers are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title along with ...

Hooper, who died Saturday, wrote and directed the 1974 cult classic film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which helped inspire a wave of slasher films that followed. Originally broadcast in 1988. This ...