Tobe Hooper

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) on Blu-ray

by Martyn Conterio 8 November 2013

Leatherface, chainsaw enthusiast and brick shithouse who sports a homemade variety of dead skin masks to suit any given occasion has become one of horror cinema’s enduring icons and one of its most abused. His debut was hugely memorable, a star being well and truly born, but then it went downhill fast with the sequels […]

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In Review: Texas Chainsaw on Blu-ray

by Martyn Conterio 14 May 2013

In Texas Chainsaw the family that slays together stays together. Based directly on narrative events witnessed in Tobe Hooper’s seminal 1974 shocker, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, John Luessenhop’s 2013 sequel sets out to expand upon the bloody shenanigans of the Sawyer clan in twisted new fashion. At the multiplex, you also got to see […]

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In Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D

by Mark Searby 8 January 2013

The sound of a chainsaw in a horror movie conjures only one image – Leatherface. The lumbering, freakish figure struck terror into our hearts when introduced in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Several sequels, the 2003 remake and unneccessary prequel later, a fresh attempt at retooling the franchise – that follows directly […]

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