WATCHcanonThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · USA · 83m
Almost bloodless and completely unbearable. Heat, noise and exhaustion doing all the work.
Goreledger 10/10
Director · 5 films
Horror films directed by Tobe Hooper
5 films directed by Tobe Hooper are catalogued in the ledger, from 1974 to 1985. Countries of origin: USA, Australia and UK. The most common subgenres here are slasher (3), backwoods / hillbilly (2), cannibal (1) and cosmic horror (1). The best-documented entries are The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Poltergeist (1982) and Lifeforce (1985). Of these, 3 were banned, refused or seized somewhere.
The films
WATCHcanon
WATCHknownDeath Trap
1976 · USA · 91m
Hooper's follow-up to Chain Saw, shot entirely on a sound stage lit in red. A hotel, a scythe and a crocodile.
WATCHknownThe Funhouse
1981 · USA · 96m
Hooper on a real budget with Rick Baker's monster. Nowhere near nasty enough to be on this list.
WATCHcanonPoltergeist
1982 · USA · 110m
A suburban family, a television, and a chair-stacking sequence that has never stopped being copied.
Goreledger 8/10
WATCHknownLifeforce
1985 · UK/Australia · 116m
Tobe Hooper's space-vampire epic, adapted from Colin Wilson, and it is completely insane in the best way.