- Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/tag/tobe-hooper/ Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:05:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 Inheritor of Charismatic Spiritualism- Tangina Barrons in Poltergeist https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/inheritor-of-charismatic-spiritualism-tangina-barrons-in-poltergeist/ Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:01:36 +0000 https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=10834 In Poltergeist (1982), director Tobe Hooper and writer Steven Spielberg created a haunted house that ditched cobwebs in favor of…

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]]> “Blood Opera”: A Celebration of Stretch Brock https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/blood-opera-a-celebration-of-stretch-brock/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:24:25 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=8193 Imagine a Final Girl. She’s probably a teenager, virginal, with a hint of androgyny in her haircut, her outfit,…

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]]> Salem’s Lot and the Nuclear Threat https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/salems-lot-and-the-nuclear-threat/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:40:25 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=5602 Salem’s Lot is about vampires, of course. But as I recently re-read King’s 1975 novel and watched the exceptional…

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]]> Roadkill: Art or Exploitation? https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/roadkill-art-exploitation/ Fri, 05 May 2017 13:57:02 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=3581 Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) famously opens (after the credit sequence) with what has to be one…

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]]> Seeing and Slaughtering in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/seeing-and-slaughtering-in-tobe-hoopers-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:20:52 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=608 Horror films have long been recognized for their ability to reflect troubling social and political concerns: it’s one of…

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