Texas Chain Saw director Tobe dies, 74
HORROR film director Tobe Hooper, who made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, has died aged 74.
The influential 1974 slasher movie was banned in Britain until 1999.
It cost just £230,000 but was one of the most profitable indie films of the era. The main character, Leatherface, was loosely based on serial killer Ed Gein.
Hooper went on to direct Salem’s Lot in 1979 and Poltergeist in 1982. His final film was Djinn in 2013.
The father-of-two died in Sherman Oaks, California, on Saturday.
Halloween film-maker John Carpenter said: “He was a kind, decent man.”
And horror author Stephen King said: “Sorry to hear Tobe Hooper passed. He will be missed.”