12 Movies Directed by Tobe Hooper

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-10-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (87252 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Kim Henkel (story)

Tobe Hooper (story)

Fullplot:

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

Eaten Alive

Eaten Alive

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-05-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (4219 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Alvin L. Fast

Mohammed Rustam

Kim Henkel (screen adaptation)

Fullplot:

Judd runs the Starlight Hotel out in some sort of swampy place and is unfortunately a few slices short of a loaf. He has a crocodile conveniently placed on the other side of the hotel's front porch railing. The croc will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests of the hotel find out soon enough. A reformed hooker, an unlucky family, and the father and sister of the hooker all suffer various rates of attrition as Judd tries to implement damage control.

The Dark

The Dark

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-04-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.1 (729 Reviews)

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Fullplot:

At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

Salem's Lot

Salem's Lot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-11-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (13465 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen King (novel)

Paul Monash (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The successful writer Benjamin "Ben" Mears returns to his hometown Salem's Lot, Maine, expecting to write a new novel about the Marsten House. Ben believes that the manor is an evil house that attracts evil men since the place has many tragic stories and Ben saw a ghostly creature inside the house when he was ten. Ben finds that the Marsten House has just been rented to the antique dealers Richard K. Straker and his partner Kurt Barlow that is permanently traveling. Ben meets the divorced teacher Susan Norton that is living with her parents and they have a love affair. Ben also gets close to her father Dr. Bill Norton and his former school teacher Jason Burke. When people start to die anemic, Ben believes that Straker's partner is a vampire. But how to convince his friends that he is not crazy and that is the truth?

Poltergeist

Poltergeist

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-06-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (94447 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Steven Spielberg (screenplay)

Michael Grais (screenplay)

Mark Victor (screenplay)

Steven Spielberg (story)

Fullplot:

A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.

Lifeforce

Lifeforce

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (14170 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Colin Wilson (novel)

Dan O'Bannon (screenplay)

Don Jakoby (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The space shuttle Churchill is assigned to observe the Halley's Comet under the command of Col. Tom Carlsen. They see a strange form attached to the comet and Carlsen goes with a team to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and they bring them to the Churchill. However, Earth loses contact with the shuttle and the Space Research Center sends another spacecraft to search the Churchill. They find the crew dead and the shuttle burnt and one rescue pod missing. They bring the humanoids to Earth and soon Dr. Hans Fallada and his team discover that the Space Girl is a sort of vampire and drains the life force from people transforming them into zombies. When the authorities find that Col. Tom Carlsen has survived, they summon him to explain what happened in the Churchill. Carlsen tells an incredible story about the three aliens and he teams up with Col. Colin Caine trying to save mankind from the evil vampires from the space.

Invaders from Mars

Invaders from Mars

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-06-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (4758 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Blake (based on a screenplay by)

Dan O'Bannon (screenplay)

Don Jakoby (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-08-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (17625 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Genres:

ComedyHorror

Cast:

Writer:

L.M. Kit Carson

Tobe Hooper (film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre")

Fullplot:

Young DJ Vantia Block is hosting a music show when two renegade hoodlums phone her and start making trouble. The situation changes rapidly as the kids drive to a passageway and get sawed to pieces by Leatherface while the shocked DJ listens the kids' screams. Local sheriff approaches Block and convinces her to play the recording made from the phone call on radio, hoping that the killers would show up.

Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous Combustion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-02-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.5 (1444 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Tobe Hooper (story)

Tobe Hooper (screenplay)

Howard Goldberg (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Body Bags

Body Bags

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-08-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(4629 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Three short stories in the horror genre. The first about a serial killer. The second about a hair transplant gone wrong. The third about a baseball player.

The Mangler

The Mangler

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-03-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK, Australia, South Africa

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

3.9 (6208 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen King (short story)

Tobe Hooper (screenplay)

Stephen David Brooks (screenplay)

Harry Alan Towers (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry occurs, detective John Hunton decides to investigate. What he finds is the owner of the laundry, Bill Gartley. Meanwhile the folding machine has acquired a taste for the flesh of human beings, but is their more to Bill Gartley than meets the eye, and does he know what monster hides behind the machine?

Toolbox Murders

Toolbox Murders

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (6505 Reviews)

Director:

Tobe Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Jace Anderson

Adam Gierasch

Fullplot:

Nell and her husband Steven are looking for a business, as well as a home, when they come across the Lusman Arms apartment block. They move in and begin renovating the building, in which a series of weird killings begin to take place. When she finally discovers the supernatural evil behind it all, she gets more than she bargained for!

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