Tobe Hooper: The Texas Trailblazer

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

There is a version of Tobe Hooper’s story that begins and ends with one film, and it is the version most obituaries reached for when he died in 2017. It sells him short. Hooper made a masterpiece at thirty and spent the next four decades being underestimated by an industry that had already decided what he was. Track the whole filmography, though, and a real artist emerges: a maker fascinated by texture, by heat, by the way a camera can lie about what it is showing you. The trailblazing was never a one-off. It was a temperament.

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Tobe Hooper: The Texas Trailblazer