AnimationFan14 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 "Tobe Hooper, the horror director best known for helming “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “Poltergeist,” died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the Los Angeles County Coroner" http://variety.com/t/tobe-hooper/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarPanda Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Rip Those are 2 iconic movies of horror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenigundam Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Oh I thought you meant the guy who played Spider-Man for a second. Scared me there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapinator_X Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 RIP TCM is one of the greatest examples of making a gruesome horror movie with limited on-screen gore. When I was a TA for film class, I used to teach the door slam scene during the lecture on Sound. The distant pig squealing, the crack that the hammer makes on Kirk's head, the guy's feet tapping at the floorboard as he twitches, and then Leatherface's final door slam as it's left to your imagination what exactly he's planning on doing with his body. It was a completely disgusting film with a reputation of being hard to distribute due to it's violent content, but most of it's appalling nature came from how the viewer had to jump to conclusions on what the Sawyer family did with their victims based on the shots and sound presented to obscure their violence. Hooper had a ton of other great films like Poltergeist, but TCM, like the late George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, were able to do so much with a small budget and the basic special effects available in the 60's-70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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