Tobe Hooper

It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...

"The Odd Life of Timothy Green" is odd indeed. It comes from writer-director Peter Hedges of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and other pictures, and in pleasing ways as well as some dubious ones, Hedges ranges all over the place in his expansion of a story...

*1/2 (out of four) Since it's missing one particular word in its title, “Texas Chainsaw” now sounds almost like a menacingly named barbecue joint with an unnecessarily aggressive style of cutting its meat, likean Iron Chef who took the name...

Michael Myers, the masked silent Shape that emerged from the shadows of Haddonfield, Ill., to stalk generations of moviegoers, will ......

It might not be as well known to some moviegoers as “Friday the 13th,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” or “Saw,” ......

It was a typical day at the office for Bill Moseley. “I was lying on the floor of the house, ......

On Sunday, the two-part miniseries “Bag of Bones” premieres on A&E, the latest in a very long line of efforts to bring Stephen King’s unique vision to TV. Mick Garris, the director and King's most established TV collaborator, discusses...

One of screen history's most popular horror franchises gets an expectedly graphic reboot with this contemporary take, originally shown theatrically in 3-D. Upon going to the Lone Star State to claim an inheritance, a young woman (Alexandra Daddario)...

The first movie to go into wide release in 2013 misses, by mere days, a qualifying run for the 2012 Oscars. Thus "Texas Chainsaw 3D" can't enjoy the hype of the just-as-bloody "Django Unchained." Well, there are other differences. "Chainsaw 3D":...

OPENING FRIDAY Zero Dark Thirty  Everyone knows how "Zero Dark Thirty" ends: with the killing of Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani compound by SEAL Team Six.  But it’s how it begins — with the hauntingly effective use of the voices of the...

The best horror films are actually about something larger than the grim events that typically befall their characters. It's what makes Tobe Hooper's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" films, George Romero's "Living Dead" movies or the more recent "House of the...

OPENING FRIDAY Texas Chainsaw 3D  Lionsgate's Texas Chainsaw 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a...