In 2020, Grimmfest will pay tribute to four Legends of Horror, in the suitably elegant, art-deco surroundings of Stockport Plaza. Experience classics of the genre in suitably grand, elegant style, in the most beautiful Picture Palace in the region. Grimmfest has partnered with The Horror Channel to offer big screen…
Browsing: Tobe Hooper
Grimmfest, considered one of the UK’s biggest horror cinema specialists, celebrate the history of horror cinema. This year, Grimmfest has partnered with The Horror Channel to offer big screen presentations of a whole host of classic horror films from four masters of the genre all on the big screen, across…
BODY BAGS **** USA 1993 Dir: John Carpenter / Tobe Hooper / Larry Sulkis. 91 mins Showtime’s attempt to cash in on the success of HBO’s TALES FROM THE CRYPT resulted in this one-off horror anthology, framed by amusingly bad taste scenes of a coroner (the appropriately cadaverous John Carpenter,…
POLTERGEIST ***** USA 1982 Dir: Tobe Hooper. 114 mins While continuing the AMITYVILLE-era trend for mainstream paranormal movies, Tobe Hooper’s biggest Hollywood hit also reflected the various ways in which studio blockbusters aimed at family audiences embraced horror movie tropes and tricks. When the equally ghoulish and gruesome PG rated…
Franchise Corner Entry: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE ***** U.S.A. 1974 Dir: Tobe Hooper 80 mins Tobe Hooper made several clever, hugely entertaining and witty movies, though, when he died in August 2017, only one dominated the obituaries. It needs no introduction – whole books…