Tobe Hooper's top 5 best films!

 Tobe Hooper's top 5 best films!

Today we have lost yet another legend. Mr. Tobe Hooper. Many like to say there was the top four horror kings. Craven, Romero, Carpenter, and Hooper. I'll agree halfway with that statement since there are at least seven or eight huge horror directors who have been around just as long as these four gentlemen who have created huge icons as well as countless memorable films. Still, there's no getting away from the fact that Tobe Hooper was responsible for making one of the top horror villains. 

Leatherface.

In the early 1970's Tobe and a group of filmmakers made one of the most terrifying films of all time. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Feeling more like a documentary than an actual film, there honestly hadn't been anything like it before. More than a decade later he directed the over the top black comedy sequel TMC2 making new horror icons such as Chop Top. In-btween he kept busy making cult classics like Eaten Alive, Stephen King's Salem's Lot, The Funhouse as well as the original Poltergeist. He later on made other great movies like Spontaneous Combustion, and The Mangler. Tobe was also responsible for directing some truly great TV work. He directed the pilot of Freddy's Nightmares, as well as a terrifying episode from the highly underrated show The Others. Today to pay tribute to this horror titan we're settled down watching The Funhouse and listing Hooper's top 5 best films of all time.

5) Poltergeist 

- A middle class family who live in a peaceful neighborhood begin to notice strange unexplained activity in their house. Their adorable young daughter talks to the TV when static is just playing, acting as if she's listening to voices. Furniture moves without anyone touching it as well as several other things. At first the family is in awe over what's suddenly happening until one night their young daughter disappears with her voice trapped inside the TV. Confused and scared, they reach out to the local university where several doctors come in believing that this house isn't haunted. It has a poltergeist, which means several, if not more spirits have taken their young daughter to guide them to finally cross over. Here it's up to the doctors and family to band together in getting the little girl back before it's too late.

4) Spontaneous Combustion

- Back in the 1950's a young married couple agree to be test subjects durning nuclear testing. Shortly after the experiments are done, the wife discovers she's pregnant and delivers 9 months later a beautiful baby boy. Just mere hours following his birth, both the husband and the wife suddenly burst into flames, dying a very painful and violent death. The government quickly cover this up, knowing very well that the experiments very well had something to do with this tragic accident. Flash forward almost forty years later where the son is now fully grown and working as a teacher. On his birthday he begins to suffer from strange visions of his deceased parents as well as parts of his body suddenly bursting in flames. Scared, and lost, he tries to figure out what exactly this is happening, and how to stop it before it's too late.

3) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

- Almost a decade after the events of the original film, a Texas Ranger is Hell bent on proving to local police that the dozens of unsolved murders that have been scattered all over Texas is all linked to the crazed family that was responsible for what happened in the first film. One night a rock DJ accidentally records the gruesome murder of two tourists and believe this wasn't just some "accident". Together the Ranger and DJ team up together to trap these killers, before stumbling upon the massive underground layer they have been hiding out in for years.

2) "Eye" Body Bags

- A happily married baseball player who's on the verge of truly becoming an all star is involved in a terrible car accident where he loses one of his eyes. Devastated that this now means he'll no longer play ball, a team of doctors approach him with a brand new experimental transplant where he could receive a brand new working eye! After receiving the transplant from a deceased donor, the man can't believe how lucky he is. He seems as if he has a new lease on life! With news that his wife is pregnant everything seems perfect until the man begins suffering from violent nightmares and images of committing horrible acts. It's here he learns that the donor of his eye was actually a crazed serial killer who suffered from horrible abusive from his mother which resulted in him going on a massacre. Feeling as if the man's spirit is slowly taking over, he's faced with a horrible decision. Keep the eye, or keep his life?!

1) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

- In the early 1970's five teenagers take a van to visit a cemetery in Southern Texas to check the grave of one of their grandfather's after hearing news reports of mysterious grave robbing in which the rotting corpses have been put up in gruesome displays throughout the vast countryside. After being reassured that their grandfather's final resting spot hasn't been disturbed, they head down a lone backroad to visit his old abandoned house discovering that they are low on fuel. After a very dangerous run-in a strange hitchhiker, the group is slightly un-nerved but make the fatal mistake in splitting up hoping to find a nearby neighbor who might have some gas to spare. This is where one by one the teens stumble upon a giant farm house a few miles down the road. Inside they discover decorations and furniture made out of human skin and bones. Inside lives a giant deformed man who wears the faces of his victims on top of his own. As each teen enters his home, he attacks them, violently murdering them with a huge chainsaw. Here one of the teens, a young girl by the name of Sally is forced to run for her life before discovering that this man is just one member of the twisted family who has been committing these murders for decades as well as turning their flesh into BBQ for the local gas station just on the outside of town.

3 cheers to the great Tobe Hooper. You will be missed. Thank you for everything!