Director Tobe Hooper passed away at 74. He was a good director of the horror genre and universally admired by top filmmakers and artists for his ground breaking The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 which opened up a generation of more explicit films (even though his classic was more suggestive and tension filled). He was the director of record when Poltergeist came out with the fingerprints of Steven Spielberg all over it (much like The Thing had Howard Hawks' influence though not officially as director). He directed the grossly underrated scifi vampire film Lifeforce and made one of the scariest Stephen King adaptations on TV with Salem's Lot. He will be remembered for his contributions to an ever popular genre.
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