Tobe Hooper-How the mighty have fallen.

[ctc]

>I've seen the first half an hour of Lifeforce about 50 times. I don't think I've ever seen the ending

So.... you missed Jean Luke Picard crying like a little girl? THAT'S one of the creepiest scenes ever....

Don C.

[wolfie]

I just watched Lifeforce on You Tube. There is no getting away from the fact that it is not a very good film but it is one of the best not very good films i have seen.

I would like to see this remade, i think they could turn it into a really great movie.

[Toyman_Chris]

That could also describe another favorite of mine from Tobe...

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/funhouse.jpg

Some great bits from this one : early on there's a homage scene to Halloween and Psycho, the great fake-out scare from a carny magician, and a real monster hiding behind a Frankenstein mask.

BTW Gorn Capt, you're totally spot-on that Mortuary really sucks.

I totally forgot about The Funhouse! That movie was creepy back when I was a kid watching it on HBO. A lot of people don't know of the movie. It's on Netflix for instant watch! FYI, your link doesn't work, but I knew what you were referring too.

[StrangeVisitor]

... but it's also one of those things where the lack of budget made it rawer, and the rawness made it more exciting.

That could also describe another favorite of mine from Tobe...




Some great bits from this one : early on there's a homage scene to Halloween and Psycho, the great fake-out scare from a carny magician, and a real monster hiding behind a Frankenstein mask.

BTW Gorn Capt, you're totally spot-on that Mortuary really sucks.

[Toyman_Chris]

I'll confess, I noticed Lifeforce on Netflix last week and watched ten minutes of it.

LOL. Amazing! Now that we all know it's on Netflix, i see that you will have started a trend!

[palitoy]

I'll confess, I noticed Lifeforce on Netflix last week and watched ten minutes of it.

[Brazoo]

Texas Chainsaw is an amazing movie - but it's also one of those things where the lack of budget made it rawer, and the rawness made it more exciting.

Great movie - don't want to take away from that - great movies made by The Masters usually have their happy accidents too.

Mathilda May's scenes make Lifeforce worth watching... and pausing, and rewinding.

Urr - well, in all honestly, I believe those are the only scenes I've seen.

Death Trap in the UK was possibly called Eaten Alive in the USA. Neville Brand and his crocodile in the swamp.

We allready had a cannibal movie called Eaten Alive.

Ahh! I haven't seen Eaten Alive (A.K.A. Death Trap) yet - I'll check it out now for sure!

[johnmiic]

I guess Chainsaw is unique in that it breaks a lot of cliche`s and it was made a few years after the new ratings system was put in place. It's probably as relevant as Psycho, Night of the Living Dead & a mainstream film like The French Connection in challenging the audiences expectations. It probably would not have been made at all if they tried in the mid 1960's.

[Toyman_Chris]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a cool movie and all...but hardly a masterpiece of cinema.

In the genera it was a masterpiece of cinema. Don't get me wrong, it's not Ben Hur or Shawshank Redemption, but for a horror/thriller, it's definitely a masterpiece. Timeless.

Salems Lot was very good

I have loved that movie since I first saw it on TV. One of my favorites, although that is more nostalgia than cinematic genius on Hooper's part.

I've seen the first half an hour of Lifeforce about 50 times. I don't think I've ever seen the ending

Agreed!

[palitoy]

Mathilda May's scenes make Lifeforce worth watching... and pausing, and rewinding.

I've seen the first half an hour of Lifeforce about 50 times. I don't think I've ever seen the ending

[wolfie]

Death Trap in the UK was possibly called Eaten Alive in the USA. Neville Brand and his crocodile in the swamp.

We allready had a cannibal movie called Eaten Alive.

[Bruce Banner]

Mathilda May's scenes make Lifeforce worth watching... and pausing, and rewinding.

[Hector]

For which films do you think Tobe Hooper was mighty?

Exactly.

OK...he sort of directed Poltergiest...but that was Spielberg's project...Hooper was just a hired hand.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a cool movie and all...but hardly a masterpiece of cinema.

Lifeforce was terrible.

[kennermike]

Yeah, but that's directed by Sidney Lumet. (Not great in my opinion).

Maybe Wolfie is thinking of "Lifeforce" - or maybe one of Hoopers early movies had a different name in the U.K.?

thats what I though Deathtrap 1982 was a Sydney Lumet.not Hooper

[Brazoo]

never seen Deathtrap is that with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve?

Yeah, but that's directed by Sidney Lumet. (Not great in my opinion).

Maybe Wolfie is thinking of "Lifeforce" (just thinking of that because it's two words) or maybe one of Hoopers early movies had a different name in the U.K.?