Tobe Hooper
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If you want a sense of my state of mind these days, last night’s double feature was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the Hilma af Klint documentary.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The seminal Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of only a handful of horror films that have truly and reliably terrified me. RIP Tobe Hooper.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Poltergeist
The Philadelphia Film Festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and as it turned out, about 4 of the 8 screenings I attended were worthwhile.
The highlights included Haute Tension (as reviewed in my previous post), a French slasher gross-out; Time of the Wolf, Austrian auteur Michael Haneke’s latest chilling diatribe on the human condition; Robot Boy, a Tim Burton-esque fairy tale short; and Harvie Krumpet, the newest in Aussie genius Adam Elliot’s animated series… See more →