1982—The Greatest Summer Movie Season Ever?
I say yes!
ARE SNAKES NECESSARY?
This irresistibly pulpy psycho-thriller is the first novel by film legend Brian De Palma (co-written with girlfriend Susan Lehman)
TOBE HOOPER: 1943-2017
Here we bid farewell to the brilliant, and frustratingly erratic, Tobe Hooper
TOBE HOOPER’S SALEM’S LOT: STUDIES IN THE HORROR FILM
Another, and extremely good, entry in Centipede Press’s “Studies in the Horror Film” series
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
This 1990 cheapie was supposed to be the late Tobe Hooper’s “comeback”–it wasnt!
THE MANGLER
In light of the untimely August 26, 2017 death of director Tobe Hooper, here’s a look back at one of his late period films
MIDNIGHT MOVIE
The RING inspired narrative could admittedly be a bit stronger–and scarier–overall, but the novel is never less than readable and inviting, driven by Hooper’s hard-bitten, quintessentially Texan worldview.
EATEN ALIVE
Director Tobe Hooper’s follow up to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, EATEN ALIVE was one of the innumerable JAWS knock-offs that flooded Hollywood in the late 1970s, the shark stand-in here being a massive crocodile to which a loony old man feeds his enemies
POLTERGEIST (1982)
The first big budget Hollywood production by THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE’S Tobe Hooper, although POLTERGEIST’S actual director has long been in question
FANGORIA’S WEEKEND OF HORRORS
This video, the only commercially released documentary on Fangoria’s “Weekend of Horrors” phenomenon, is now a bonafide historical document