(LOS ANGELES) — Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” took a buzzsaw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, has died. He was 74. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says Hooper died Saturday in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. It was reported as a natural death. Hooper and contemporaries like George Romero crafted some of the scariest nightmares that ever haunted moviegoers.
Tobe Hooper, ‘texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Director, Dies At 74
Associated Press, Time
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 10:11am
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