S3E27: Tobe Hooper’s Dirty Little Secret

The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast

Dirty little secrets… Show biz is filled to the brim with em. And Tobe Hooper’s dirty little secret? It might just could blow your mind…

One of the greatest things about doing TALES FROM THE CRYPT – and there were lots and lots of great things about it – was getting to work with all the talented people we got to work with. There were a lot of pinch me moments because of it.

Kirk Douglass, Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Billy Friedkin, John Frankenheimer – our executive producers Dick Donner, Bob Zemeckis and Walter Hill – see?

Pinch me!

And, prominent in the Pinch Me Club experience was working with horror meister TOBE HOOPER. Tobe wasn’t just another horror director ffs, he was one of the inventors of the modern independent horror movie! He was also a terrific movie-maker (in the most serious sense) to begin with.

And a terrific person on top of it all!

Tobe’s Dirty Little Secret

Spoiler alert – that’s Tobe Hooper’s big, dirty secret. For all the blood and gore and horror he envisioned, the man himself was absolutely lovely. A real pleasure to know.

In this episode, in addition to sharing our own stories about working with Tobe – and, in Gil’s case, knowing Tobe as a friend – we’ll talk to KIM HENKEL – cowriter with Tobe of the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE screenplay – and a longtime friend of Tobe’s.

We’ll talk to LEVIE ISAACKS. Levie was one of Tobe’s regular directors of photography. He has an uncredited voice role in Chainsaw.. And, of course, Levie was a long time DP on Tales From The Crypt.

Finally, we’ll talk to the DADS FROM THE CRYPT – Jason, Jody and Mando – all huge Tobe Hooper fans – fand get their insights into Tobe and his considerable body of work.

So – if you’re a Tobe Hooper fan, you’re in very, very good company with a lot of other Tobe Hooper fans.

Now, you can keep a secret, right?