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Tobe Hooper - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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January 25, 1943, Austin, Texas, USA - August 26, 2017, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA - American film director, screenwriter and producer specializing in the genre of horror films.
Prior to joining the cinema, he worked as a college teacher and operator of educational films.
Cinema was fond of from a young age. From the age of 9, Tobe took pictures of everything he considered important with his father's 8mm camera. Known for his first sound work called "Abyss" ("Abyss"), which he created at the age of 16.
Later, in 1968, for the non-profit network PBS, he shoots a film about the folk group "Peter, Paul and Mary". One of Hooper's early documentaries, shot in the spirit of a modern take on the American Odyssey, made it to the Atlanta Film Festival.
He decided to realize his passion for filming on the set of a low-budget film about maniacs, having gathered a young team of colleagues and students. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shot in a couple of weeks.
31-year-old Hooper shot a horror film about a family of chainsaw users, and got a kind of genre masterpiece that became his admission to Hollywood among the recognized figures of horror films. In addition to the creative success (the debutant director received the prestigious Critics Prize of the Fantastic Film Festival in Avoriaz), the picture was also a success in commercial terms.
Three years later, having gathered part of the former team, Hooper shoots a new ironic genre film called "Death Trap" about a maniac - the owner of a roadside motel, feeding guests to a crocodile. Here, for the first time, the fate of Freddy Krueger - Robert Englund and Hooper - crossed.
If the first film could be used to judge the potential of a young filmmaker, the second film showed that Hooper has his own unique style, which is not imposed on him from the outside. He becomes a role model for colleagues in the horror film workshop.
Hooper is trying to invade the fantasy thriller genre by agreeing to shoot Into the Dark. But he served as director for only three days and was replaced by John Cardos.
That same year, Hooper signs a contract with CBS to create a 4-hour television series based on Stephen King's bestselling Salem Vampires. The series attracted the attention of viewers and was quite well received by experts in the horror genre, who noted Hooper's film among the most interesting works about vampires created in recent years.
Now, Hooper has attracted the attention of major film companies, and for Universal he made another horror film "Attraction of Fear" (1982). The film did not have much success, but demonstrated that the director can work not only in the low-budget thrash style, but also for leading studios.
The most striking achievement of the first stage of the director's work is associated with the collaboration with producer Steven Spielberg, with whom Hooper creates the genre horror film Poltergeist for MGM. The subsequent work of the director in the mid-to-late 1980s is the almost inevitable cost of a powerful beginner's start.
Tobe Hooper is trying to self-replicate back to old ways (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986), or create an erotic version of Colin Wilson's novel Space Vampires, turning the literary basis into an obscure film Life Force (1985). All these attempts are poorly supported by critics and audiences.
Tobe Hooper's attempts to enter the genre of science fiction are not entirely successful - his film "Invaders from Mars" (1986), a remake of the popular 1953 film, did not become an achievement either in the history of the genre or in Hooper's film biography.
A new phase is associated with active work for the small screen, where his irony and skill in creating genre films was excellently realized. For 10 years, he completely immerses himself in the world of creating television series. For example, working with the series "Tales from the Crypt" (a fragment with the participation of Whoopi Goldberg - "Deadly Expectation"), or a TV remake about Freddy Krueger "Freddy's Nightmares".
One of the characteristic works of the mid-1990s is the films with the participation of Robert Englund "The Crusher" (1995) and "The Night Terrors of Tobe Hooper" (1995). The director is self-righteous about his first film about a chainsaw, offering viewers a new "device" for killing people: a press for wringing out clothes in a laundry. Maniacs are mechanized, but still remain hostages of their sick heads and souls.
In the same years, Hooper's remarkable pilot episodes for the series Nowhere Man with Bruce Greenwood and Dark Skies were released, the format of which allows us to talk about a new approach to the fantastic perception of everyday things.
A walk-through film made for the video was Hooper's return to the reptile-man-eating theme - Crocodile (2000).
Only nine years after The Crush, Tobe Hooper returns to the set of full-length fiction films, directing the film about a serial killer using a variety of tools, including a hammer and circular saw, The Nightmare of the Hill House (2003). This was followed by Morgue (2005) about a single mother working in a morgue next to a cemetery.
In 2005 he took part in the large television project “Masters of Horror”, which brought together famous horror aces, who presented their hour-long episodes in the horror genre. Hooper directed the episode "Dance of the Dead" starring his old pal Robert Englund.
