Tobe Hooper 1943-2017: FAREWELL TO A HORROR ICON

I don’t want my blog to become an obituary but I just have to acknowledge the sad passing of another horror legend Tobe Hooper, just as I did with Wes Craven and George A. Romero. As I mentioned in a previous blog Tobe Hooper along with Raimi, Romero, Carpenter and Craven are the reasons I wanted to become a filmmaker as a teenager. He was a huge inspiration for me to pick up the camera and make my own horror films. He was also the first director to get me interested in horror films from a very young age. Hooper gave us possibly the most famous film title in horror cinema history; In 1974 he made the notorious The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the most influential horror films of all time, for less than $300,000. It became one of the most profitable independent films of the 1970s.

Greatest Movie Scenes: Road To Perdition

Every couple of months I’m going to dedicate a blog to the greatest movie scenes of all time. These are not ‘officially’ the greatest but are what I consider to be the best, and I’ll also include some of my favorites. I’ve been told (by my wife) that most of my blogs are too long and it will put people off reading them. I have to admit one of my last articles, the review of Split, was way too long but I just had a lot to say about the film and in particular M. Night Shyamalan. Therefore I will try to keep them shorter from now on.