Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...Texas Chain Saw Massacre double feature, wherein original visionary Tobe Hooper will hang around for screenings of his 1974..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Last House on the Left

Louis Black reviews Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chain-saw Massacre, and Halloween -- all featured in IFC's new documentary, American Nightmare

"...have many sources. Still, the work of George Romero, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, and Wes Craven can't be overestimated...."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

Screen Play

Austin Film Festival Reviews

"...Horror Night(Q&A with Tobe Hooper)..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature

The Saw Is Family! City Celebrates The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s 50th Anniversary

Proclamation ceremony brings together cast, council, and fans

"...October 11, 1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre rips into..."

Oct. 13, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

"...Directed by: Tobe Hooper. Starring: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen and Ed Neal...."

Oct. 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Song is Love

"...Directed by: Tobe Hooper. Hard to picture Tobe Hooper, the guy who..."

Dec. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Was Really About the Horrors of Modern American Society?

Putting the Austin-made seminal slasher back into context

"...gives a bare-bones account of the actual creation of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's grueling, gruesome masterwork, The Texas..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...1968), Wes Craven (Last House on the Left, 1972), Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974), David Cronenberg (Rabid,..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pen-Ultimate Fest

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference & Festival

"...public panel discussion with Hopper and Oliver Stone, held October 4 at the Paramount. "I guess I'm just a..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Brahms: The Boy II

The well-dressed, porcelain, miniature killer is back. Um … how?

"...Pearl, a UT alum and, more importantly, cameraman on Tobe Hooper’s seminal The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Unfortunately, Brahms:..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators

Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles

"...That October 18, 1974, its grand opening coincided with the world..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Holiday Gift Guide: Film Fan

From up on the screen to under the tree

"...from the entire series, from the gas station in Tobe Hooper's classic to the Hewitt house from 2006's Texas..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman

The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...Dallas; wrote The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 for director Tobe Hooper; co-wrote Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas; mentored directors Guillermo..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Filthy and Respectable!

Legendary transgressive film director and author John Waters comes to Fun Fun Fun Fest

"...fond memories of drinking all night with film director Tobe Hooper on his first visit here. "I still have..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Tim Stegall

We Are What We Are

This effectively creepy horror story gives new meaning to the family film.

"...natural expression of the family’s traditional imperative than anything Tobe Hooper ever conceived...."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thanks for the Memories

'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film

"...film scene. Talented filmmakers like Eagle Pennell, Kevin Reynolds, Tobe Hooper, and David Schmoeller would release an interesting feature,..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Don't Everybody Freak Out

Dark Matters' horror shows

"...to the film's local horror forerunners, chief among them Tobe Hopper's seminal exploration of unhappy family dynamics The Texas..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...intriguing, fourth-wall-shattering prologue. "In the excellent Chainsaw Massacre by Tobe Hooper," he elucidates, "why don't we ever see the..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Steps

New program highlights Texas filmmakers 'before they were legends'

"...doc "Styx," about the underworld of Philly's subway system; Tobe Hooper's "The Heisters," shot in 1965 when the future..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Moving Pictures

Alison Macor charts 30 years of Austin history, one film at a time

"...the 20th century, that is), Macor kicks off with Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (see excerpt "The..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Film News

Welcome to the great state of South by Southwest

"...present Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke as she is inducted. Tobe Hooper, director of the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Hatchet

The terrifically retro maniac in this horror film recalls the heyday of Eighties gore films with gleeful abandon.

"...resembles nothing so much as the bifurcated nightmare from Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse by way of South Park's rendering..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Killing Fields, Kind Of

A culinary history of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre farmhouse

"...that house: It served as the primary location for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a shoestring production..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Food Feature by MM Pack

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...-- George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), John Carpenter's..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

House of 1000 Corpses

"...of 1000 Corpses’ direct antecedent is Austin, surprisingly enough: Tobe Hooper’s 1974 genre masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Michael Bay gets into "Leather" …

"...week that the original writing/directing team of former Austinites Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel are penning a remake of..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

"Can I Get a Side of Ribs With That?'

Massacre for two?

"...Fans of Tobe Hooper's 1974 ode to pre-Reagan-era family values have for..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Why we have a golf cart in a swimming pool on our cover and other insights into our 20th anniversary issue.

"...anyone sees her, tell her I had dinner with Tobe Hooper, who told me she was great in Eggshells...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Marie Windsor

Tales of Noir and B Movies

"...Cook worked together again on Salem's Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper. Do you have any specific recollections about Tobe?..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

City of Austin to Proclaim The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day

Celebrating the horror movie that built the Texas film industry

"...to City Council, and started the process to have October 11, 2024 declared The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day..."

Oct. 7, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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