Si è spento all'età di 74 anni Tobe Hooper, il regista del cult Don't open that door (1974) and other well-known horror films such as. Poltergeist, That motel by the swamp, Il tunnel dell'orrore and Space Vampires. According to reports from Variety, the celebrated director died yesterday day, Saturday, August 26, in Sherman Oaks, California. The cause of death is not yet known.
Don't open that door (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), which has become one of the most influential films in horror cinematography, is the first chapter in a long saga (consisting of three sequels, Marcus Nispel's remake, a prequel and a 3-D fim).
The director then returned to direct the series twelve years later, in 1986, with the sequel Don't Open That Door 2.
In 2017 Tobe Hooper also appears as executive producer in Leatherface, the prequel to Don't open that door, directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo.
Il 1982 è l'anno di Poltergeist - Demoniache presenze (also the first installment in a franchise consisting of three films and to which a TV series was also added), which has also become a cult favorite in horror filmmaking.
Nel 2015, Gil Kenan ne ha diretto il remake dall'omonimo titolo.
Tobe Hooper's horror filmography (as director) boasts other titles including. That motel by the swamp (1976), Il tunnel dell'orrore (1981), Space Vampires (1985), Children of fire (1990), l'episodio "Eye" in Body Bags - Corpi estranei (1993), The Mangler - La macchina infernale (1995), The house of massacres (2004), The janitor (2005), the two episodes of the Masters of Horror ("The Damned Thing" e "Dance of the Dead") e Djinn (2013).
