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Tobe Hooper: Older. Deadlier.
Do an over the head chainsaw twirl in salute to this pioneer of modern cinematic horror.
  He's the man who took horror to new depths of depravity with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and today he turns another year older. In honor of his horrific achievements we'd like to offer him a slaughtered piece of poetry known as the birthday haiku. Documentary.
That's what his films used to be. He killed that career. Hooper began his career as a documentary cameraman and college professor, but like so many, he got tired of pretentious college kids and decided to eviscerate them on film. He is world renown for his work on Massacre and Poltergeist, but he also directed the "space vampire" flick, Lifeforce, written by cult sci-fi master Dan O'Bannon (which you can watch here at crackle). If you need more Hooper adjacent horror, check out one of of Hooper's earliest actors, a guy who later became a horror icon, Robert Englund, in the original online series Fear Clinic. Pieces out. CJ - Crackle Blog Editor
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