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Thread: RIP Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist)

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    RIP Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist)

    Surprised that I saw nothing about this on the forums a few weeks ago when it happened. I'm sure it was mentioned on Social Media, but maybe to the extent that I would have thought.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/m...e.html?mcubz=1

    August 26th.

    Poltergeist scared the shit out of me when I was a little kid. And Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains a classic.

    RIP.

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    Poltergeist is the only one of his theatrical films I've seen - I somehow never wanted to bother with the chainsaw ones. I kind of think the people who say Spielberg really directed Poltergeist may be right.

    But he directed the TV movie of Salem's Lot and that was pretty good.

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    TCM is a classic horror film.

    Like Romero's Night of the Living Dead, TCM spawned so many imitators.

    RIP..
    no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone

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    Completely missed this. Poltergeist was his masterpiece. Texas Chain Saw had it's flaws, but was ahead of its time and a midnight movie staple when I was growing up.

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    Every horror director has "that" moment in one of his films, the one that cannot be properly replicated in any of the inevitable remakes...

    In the case of TCM, they didn't bother trying, for good reason: when you realize "Gramps" is alive...

    Wish I was in the theater in '74 for that one!

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