Tobe Hooper Retrospective

Can all those terrible IMDB ratings and the critical and popular drubbings be correct? Was Tobe Hooper really washed up by the 1980s? Works like TOOLBOX MURDERS, MORTUARY, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, and his most recent, DJINN, have been lost in the shadows of Hooper's unquestionable successes LIFEFORCE, POLTERGEIST, and supremely, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Clearly an auteur in need of rescue. Our resident horror maven, Mike Thorn, watched many of these later Hoopers and finds much to love there. See if you concur with his positive reappraisal of this singular artist.

Read my article "Experimenting with the Horrific: A Reappraisal and Retrospective of the Films of Tobe Hooper" here