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American director Tobe Hooper, best known as the man behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hooper’s debut film was the little-seen Eggshells<\/em>, a low-budget independent film co-written by his Chainsaw<\/em> associate Kim Henkel. His sophomore film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>, is a horror classic and alongside The Exorcist<\/em> and The Omen<\/em> redefined the genre in the mid 1970’s, as well as spawning multiple sequels and a rebooted franchise in the last few decades. Hooper’s work on Chainsaw<\/em> cemented him as a horror film director, and he would go on to helm ‘Salem’s Lot, Poltergeist<\/em>, Lifeforce<\/em>, as well as the less-than-stellar Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2<\/em>, in 1986. The pre-and-post millennium output from Hooper remains filled with B-movies such as Night Terrors, The Mangler<\/em> (which spawned two sequels), the frankly awful Crocodile<\/em>, and most recently Djin<\/em>, in 2013.<\/p>\n Tobe Hooper passed away in Los Angeles on August 26th, aged 74.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American director Tobe Hooper, best known as the man behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":47536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",936,622,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper-768x510.jpg",640,425,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper-720x478.jpg",640,425,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",936,622,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",936,622,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",936,622,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",512,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",48,32,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",96,64,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",150,100,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper.jpg",300,199,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/tobehooper-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2.jpg\")