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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score) Born: January 25, 1943 in Austin, TX Biography:American director "Tobe Hooper" began his film career like many people in the field, working on industrial films and TV advertisements. Using student help, Hooper began making fictional films while an instructor at the University of Texas. He exploded onto the public scene in 1974 with "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", a creepy variation on the unhappy career of cannibalistic killer Ed Gein. Despite its lurid title, the film scored more on the threat of violence than its actual violent content, which was minimal. While critics either condemned the picture or simply refused to review it, the movie became a cult favorite, and within five years of its release it was being written about and analyzed by intellectual film periodicals. But, so far as Hollywood was concerned, Hooper remained on the outside looking in, though his cheaply produced "Eaten Alive" (1976) and "The Funhouse" (1981) also had loyal... Full Biography
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