No one’s done that before, at least not in a commercial, mass market movie…What makes Chainsaw interesting is that since we are watching it with our eyes open, it’s a nightmare which we can’t wake up.”Ĭelluloid Mavericks: The History of American Independent Film by Greg Merrittīefore Nick Kazan became an Oscar-nominated screenwriter ( Reversal of Fortune)-or even a working screenwriter-he was a playwright in Berkeley, California with a fondness for the writings of Harold Pinter-but he also found early inspiration from an unlikely place. The quality of the images, the texture of the sound, the illogic by which one incident follows another -all confirm to the way we dream. “ captures the syntax and structure of a nightmare with astonishing fidelity. H/T Brad Apling for sending me some Tobe Hooper links that give me a track to run on. Eggshells has been called “the first feature shot in Austin” and I don’t know if that’s true, but Hooper has to be considered a founding member of what’s turned Austin into one of the great film communities in the world. The line from Poltergeist “They’re here” was a “Show me the money”-type line that became was often quoted throughout the 80s. He went on to direct Lifeforce in 1985 (which is said to be a favorite of Quentin Tarantino) and Poltergeist(which was produced by Steven Spielberg). When only a few people outside of students at the University of Texas in Austin saw the movie, Hooper put aside his European art house film sensitivities and made this to turn heads. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tobe Hooper made documentaries and commercials in Texas before making a hippy/psychedelic feature film called Eggshells in 1969. So that’s what I did.”Īustin-based filmmaker Tobe Hooper on making The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) “I wanted to make a skyrocket big enough that I could shoot the damn thing in the air and they could see me in Los Angeles.
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