Tobe HooperFilmography

Born:: January 25, 1943 in Austin, TX
Occupation:: Director, Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: American director Tobe Hooper began his film career like many people in the field, working on industrial films and TV advertisements. Using student help, Hooper began making fictional films while an instructor at the University of Texas. He exploded onto the public scene in 1974 with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...Read More

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From a Buick 8

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Horror veteran Tobe Hooper brings another one of Stephen King's haunted car tales with From a Buick 8, the story of a man whose tragic loss of his father during the line of duty leads him to a mysterious Buick that might be the doorway to another dimension. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matthew Bomer, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Bear witness to the birth of the most horrifying legend in the history of cinema as director Jonathan Liebesman explores the nightmarish origins of the psychotic Hewitt family in this sequel to director Marcus Nispel's 2003 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The year is 1969, and despite the fact Read More

10/6/06
Masters of Horror: The Damned Thing

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Marisa Coughlan, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: A small Texas town is terrorized by an unidentified monstrous force in this installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series adapted from an Ambrose Bierce story by writer Richard Christian Matheson, and directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Sheriff Kevin Reddle (Sean Patrick Flanery Read More

2006
Mortuary

Crew: Director

Actors: Price Carson, Denise Crosby, Dan Byrd, Greg Travis

Synopsis: Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper returns to his rightful place behind the camera to weave this gruesome tale concerning an abandoned small-town funeral home with a dark and deadly secret. Local legend has it that the Fowler Funeral Home in Santa Loraina, CA, is plagued with death of Read More

2005
Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An innocent young woman is lured to the dark side, and discovers the wholesome, sheltered life she led before was rooted in betrayal and deceit in Tobe Hooper's installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, Dance of the Dead. In the not-so-distant future, a potent terrorist weapon called Read More

2005
The Toolbox Murders

Crew: Director

Actors: Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau, Greg Travis, Adam Gierasch

Synopsis: Tobe Hooper, who directed one of the truly iconic American horror films of the 1970s, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, offers his take on another well-remembered scare-fest of the era with this remake. Steve (Brent Roam) and Nell (Angela Bettis) are a young couple living in Los Angeles who are short Read More

2004
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Crew: Co-producer, From Screenplay by

Actors: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour

Synopsis: One of the most infamous horror films of the 1970s is revisited in this remake produced by action-spectacle maven Michael Bay. In the summer of 1973, four teenagers -- Erin (Jessica Biel), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Kemper (Eric Balfour), and Andy (Mike Vogel) -- are driving through Texas on a road Read More

10/17/03
Taken

Crew: Director

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Alonso Oyarzun, Julie Benz, Steve Burton, Julie Ann Emery

Synopsis: Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, the ten-episode, 20-hour miniseries Taken was one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by cable TV's Sci-Fi Network, ultimately costing 40 million dollars -- a price that proved well worth it, inasmuch as the series posted the network's highest-ever Read More

2002
Masters of Horror

2002
Crocodile

Crew: Director

Actors: Summer Knight, Chris Solari, Mark McLachlan, Caitlin Martin

Synopsis: People partying in a marshy lake area are attacked by a giant crocodile. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

2000
The American Nightmare

Actors: George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven

Synopsis: In the late '60s, the tone of American horror films began to shift in the wake of the startling success of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead -- horror films became gorier, bleaker, and began to subtly reflect the political and social upheaval gripping the country. Through the '70s and Read More

2000
The Apartment Complex

Crew: Director

Actors: Chad Lowe, Fay Masterson, Amanda Plummer, Obba Babatunde, R. Lee Ermey, Patrick Warburton

1999
The Mangler

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A hellish piece of professional laundry equipment wreaks havoc in a tiny New England town in this horror film. It all begins in The Blue Ribbon Laundry, a place run by the ruthless, crippled old Bill Gartley. With no feelings at all for his employees, he demands absolute obedience and unrelenting Read More

1995
Night Terrors

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Englund, Zoe Trilling, William Finley

Synopsis: In this tale of terror, a young woman finds herself forced into becoming an unwilling disciple of a descendant of the Marquis de Sade. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Body Bags

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, David Warner, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Wes Craven, Deborah Harry, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode Read More

1993
Sleepwalkers

Actors: Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Mark Hamill, Jim Haynie, Ron Perlman, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Stephen King wrote his first original screenplay for this horror gore fest that features cameos by directors Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and King himself (playing a cemetery attendant). The story concerns a twilight people named "sleepwalkers" --creatures similar to vampires Read More

4/10/92
Tales From the Crypt: Dead Wait

Crew: Director

1991
Spontaneous Combustion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this horror outing, a secret government experiment produces a man capable of using his mental powers to start fires. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

2/23/90
I'm Dangerous Tonight

Crew: Director

Actors: Mädchen Amick, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: A made-for-TV effort from horror director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), this supernatural thriller is ostensibly based on the novella of the same name by Cornell Woolrich -- but the title is pretty much where the similarity ends. The plot involves a possessed Aztec ceremonial cloak Read More

1990
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley

Synopsis: Over ten years after making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper returns to his deranged family of reclusive cannibals for another round of chainsaw chases and non-stop screaming. Hooper brings a real budget this time (having recently directed Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg) and the Read More

8/22/86
Invaders from Mars

Crew: Director

Actors: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen

Synopsis: Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms Read More

6/6/86
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors

Synopsis: Sponsored by the publishers of Fangoria magazine, this documentary explores the world of horror-film conventions. Interviewed are such celebrities as make-up expert Tom Savini and directors Tobe Hooper and Wes Craven. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Lifeforce

Crew: Director

Actors: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper adapts Colin Wilson's edgy novel The Space Vampires in this in this horror/sci-fi epic with a cult following. The story concerns a joint British-American space probe of Hailey's Comet. Inside the comet, the astronauts, headed by Carlsen (Steve Railsback), find a spaceship that Read More

1985
Poltergeist

Crew: Director

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins

Synopsis: With Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hopper, Steven Spielberg had his first great success as a producer. Released around the same time as Spielberg's E.T., the film presents the dark side of Spielberg's California suburban track homes. The film centers on the Freeling family, a typical middle class Read More

1982
The Funhouse

Crew: Director

Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: This low-budget horror film about teenagers trapped in a carnival funhouse with a freakish monster is pretty standard stuff. Director Tobe Hooper manages a few shocks and includes some typically peculiar supporting characters, but this film is less entertaining than either of his previous Read More

1981
Salem's Lot

Crew: Director

Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the previously warm and friendly community is downright sinister. Soul suspects that the bizarre behavior of his onetime friends and neighbors is the handiwork of oddball antique Read More

1979
Eaten Alive

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Actors: Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Marilyn Burns, William Finley, Kyle Richards, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper's follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre presents yet another Southern-fried psycho (this time in Louisiana) in the form of a scripture-mumbling, one-legged cracker named Judd (Neville Brand). The proprietor of a seedy bayou inn, Judd keeps a pet gator in the nearby swamp Read More

1976
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Crew: Camera Operator, Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn

Synopsis: Tobe Hooper's influential cult classic continues the subgenre of horror films based on the life and "career" of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, which began with Alfred Hitchcock's own influential cult classic Psycho. When Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) hears that the Texas cemetery where her Read More

1974
The Windsplitter

Actors: John Barten, Mahlon Foreman, Anne Layne, Ray O'Leary, Lee Ryan, Jim Sedlow, Carter Smith, Ruth Roberts

Synopsis: A nice young man leaves his conservative hometown of Houston to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars. All of Houston is proud of the youth's great success and so invite him home to crown the homecoming queen. Unfortunately, he roars into town astride an enormous motorcycle. With his grungy Read More

1971