Director for 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' dead

Tobe Hooper, director of the horror movie ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ has died at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, the US.

Passing away on Saturday, he was one of the first to realize a chain saw in the wrong hands could be a terrifying vision and used such image to make one of the most influential horror movies of the cinema history.

According to reports, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Sunday that he died of natural causes.

Hooper also worked on some of the most memorial titles of the silver screen such as the ghost story ‘Poltergeist’ which was made in 1982 with Steven Spielberg.

Hooper once said he loved the horror genre as a young man, but found that the films in this genre had become boring. So he made his mind to make horror movies.

Tobe Hooper was born on January 25, 1943, in Austin, Texas. His parents were in the hotel business, which left him often babysitting himself by going to the movies as they checked up on their properties in various cities.

He began by shooting documentaries and then in 1969 made his first feature ‘Eggshells’.

‘Poltergeist’ that saw Hooper working with Spielberg was a box office hit.

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