Stars put next to the most essential, likely more heavily written, pieces -- or at least the recommended starting points for an overarching understanding of THAS.
"I LIKE TO CALL THIS ONE..."
1. "Dancing Men and Camera" (Lifeforce)2. "The Regard of the Child" (The Funhouse)
EXHIBITIONS
1. THAS:
Exhibition 1: #1 - The Poignantly Seating and Upholstery / #2 -
Transmutation / #3 - Matters of Scale and the Self-Enclosing Scene (September 4, 2013)2. THAS: Exhibition 2: #1 - The Architectural Brace / #2 - The Poignantly Seating 2 / #3 - Odd Formations (May 20, 2014)
HOOPER AS AESTHETIC EXEMPLAR
1. Some Notes (Kant Rears His Head) (January 10, 2011) ★2. One of the Most Perfectly Constructed Scenes in Cinema? - On The Dark, But Generally Applicable (April 2, 2014) ★
3. THAS: The THAS Official Motto (April 29, 2014) ★
BY FILM
"The Heisters" & Eggshells
1. THAS: Miscellany You Need to Know About #2 & THE HEISTERS (1964) / The Heisters Review (April 5, 2012)
2. 'Eggshells' Now Available at MUBI / Eggshells Review (April 13, 2012)
3. THAS: 'Eggshells' Is... (October 1, 2013)
4. THAS: 'Eggshells' 1 (April 9, 2015)
The Song is Love (Unavailable 'Peter, Paul, and Mary' PBS Documentary)
1. THAS 2014: The Great Mandala (February 3, 2014)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1. Annex: Photo Set #1 (August 17, 2010)
2. THAS: Scene from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre #1 - Composition - The Gas Stop Intermezzo (August 18, 2010)
3. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
4. ANNEX POST: "Bask in Hooper and the Art of Pleasantry," and A Personal Taking Down a Peg of 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (March 16, 2014) ★
5. THAS 2014: In Defense of Franklin (A Post of 4 Parts) (September 3, 2014) ★
Eaten Alive
1. THAS: Appreciating Eaten Alive (1977) #1 - Motif - The Woman Left Behind (September 11, 2009)
2. THAS: Appreciating Eaten Alive (1977) #2 - Stage Blocking - Mother, Child, and an Illicit Sell (September 20, 2009) ★
3. THAS: Appreciating Eaten Alive (1977) #3 - Motif - The Patrician Stare of Mel Ferrer (July 1, 2010)
4. Annex: Audio #1 - Circuit Queen, Marcia Bell/Cam King (June 30, 2010)
5. Annex: Audio #2 - Audio rip: A murder ballad, Judd's false domesticity, and a f**ked family (July 21, 2010)
6. Annex: Kindertrauma on Eaten Alive (September 17, 2010)
7. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
8. Annex: Audio #3 - Audio rip: Mariachi song (November 3, 2010)
9. Annex: Excerpts from "The Gator Creator" Interview Featurette on the Dark Sky Special Edition Release of Eaten Alive (May 25, 2011)
10. THAS: Comparison (May 22, 2013)
11. THAS: The Conspicuity of the Gallery in 'Eaten Alive' (November 11, 2013) ★
12. THAS: Eaten Alive 2 (November 28, 2013)
13. THAS: Scene from 'Eaten Alive' #1 (January 15, 2015)
Salem's Lot
1. Annex: Photo Set #1 - Jack-in-the-box scare (August 14, 2011)
2. THAS: Salem's Lot (August 15, 2011)
3. THAS: Scene from 'Salem's Lot' #1 (September 20, 2011) ★
4. THAS: Hooper Trope #1: The Mathematical Scene, I (January 22, 2012) ★
5. THAS: Three Love Scenes (August 15, 2012) ★
6. THAS: Scene from 'Salem's Lot' #2 (October 19, 2012) ★
7. (THAS: Scene from 'Salem's Lot' #3) (Preface) (January 1, 2013)
8. 3 Images: The Leap
9. The Leap/THAS: Scene from 'Salem's Lot' #3/The Enigma of Susan Pt. 2 (January 11, 2013)
10. The House of Great Decision and Governing Fear (August 10, 2013)
The Funhouse
1. THAS: The Funhouse (1981) & Finally Some Thoughts on Tobe Hooper (June 20, 2009) ★
2. THAS Special Father's Day Post - Scene Study: 'Amy and Her Father' (June 21, 2009)
3. Annex: Shock Till You Drop Interview Tobe Hooper (June 25, 2010)
4. Annex: Still #1 (June 25, 2010)
5. Annex: Still #2 (August 23, 2010)
6. THAS: Highlights of The Funhouse, First-Half Edition (November 9, 2012)
7. THAS: The Dispensation of Discrete Movements (April 29, 2013) ★
8. THAS 2014: The Top 10 Most Important Hooper Scenes (January 9, 2014) ★
9. THAS: "Architectural Brace" Week: Day 4: The Funhouse's Structure (May 29, 2014)
Poltergeist
1. THAS: On 'Poltergeist' (April 17, 2010)
2. THAS Announcements - Spielberg Storyboards (June 30, 2011)
3. THAS: Hooper Trope #1: The Mathematical Scene, I (January 22, 2012) ★
4. THAS: Did You Realize... #2 (February 26, 2012)
5. THAS: Scene from Poltergeist (March 11, 2012)
6. THAS: An Objective Study of 'Poltergeist' (April 13, 2014)
7. THAS: "Architectural Brace" Week: Day 1: The 'Poltergeist' Stairs (May 26, 2014)
8. Elements of Landscape (June 18, 2014) ★
9. ONGOING 'Poltergeist,' A Walk-Through (Still In Progress) #1 (December 15, 2014), #2 (December 30, 2014), #3 (February 13, 2015), #4
Lifeforce
1. Annex: Still #1 (July 25, 2010)
2. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
3. Annex: Photo Set #1 - Tonal funny (December 5, 2010)
4. THAS: Scene from 'Lifeforce' #1 - Blocking - A Frank (Finlay) exchange. (February 9, 2011) ★
5. Annex: Photo Set #2 - Flock (July 27, 2011)
6. THAS: Did You Realize... #1 (February 14, 2012)
7. Annex: John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV on Lifeforce (February 20, 2012)
8. THAS: Scene from 'Lifeforce' #2 - Centripetal Wit (May 25, 2012) ★
9. THAS: Lifeforce (June 4, 2012) ★
10. Annex: Slant Magazine on 'Lifeforce' Blu-ray (June 16, 2013)
11. ONGOING 'LIFEFORCE' WEEK (Still In Progress)
12. THAS 2014: The Top 10 Most Important Hooper Scenes (January 9, 2014) ★
13. THAS: "Architectural Brace" Week: Day 3: The Pillars of the Sensual Cathedral (May 29, 2014)
Invaders from Mars
1. THAS: Scene from 'Invaders from Mars' #1 - Construction - The Almost-Awkward Construction (October 8, 2011)
2. Annex: Photo Set #1, #2, & #3 - Father and Son (October 18, 2011)
3. THAS: Scene from 'Invaders from Mars' #2 - Composition - Emotive Staging (October 26, 2011)
4. THAS: The Climax of 'Invaders from Mars' (November 8, 2011)
5. THAS: Scene from 'Invaders from Mars' #3 - Construction - Old-Fashioned Inspiration, aka Stagebound Inspiration, or The Mimetic Impulse (October 3, 2012)
6. THAS: Scene from 'Invaders from Mars' #4 (January 15, 2015)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1. Annex: Still #1 (June 21, 2010)
2. THAS: Scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II #1 - Blocking - 'I need your help, missy' (May 22, 2010) ★
3. Extra #1 - Production Still (August 28, 2010)
4. Extra #2 - Sensibly Absurd, or: "HOW MAD AT ME ARE YOU?!?" (August 30, 2010)
5. Annex: Photo Set #1 - A Four-Terraced Shot (January 23, 2011)
6. Annex: Photo Set Pair - Stretch (January 24, 2011)
7. THAS: Scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II #2 - Composition - "Shame on you." (May 31, 2011) ★
8. Annex: Cascade / THAS Extended Write-up (July 9, 2011) ★
9. THAS: On 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre II' (July 22, 2012)
10. THAS: Notes on a 35mm Screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (September 15, 2013) ★
11. THAS: "Architectural Brace" Week: Day 2: The Meat Hanging Room's Wooden Beams (May 27, 2014)
Spontaneous Combustion
1. THAS: The Art of the Exquisite Shot-Reverse Shot - Case #1 - Scene Study: 'Lisa and Trinidad' (July 23, 2009)
2. Annex: Still #1 - Fire, blaze, emulsion (August 7, 2010)
3. Annex: Photo Set #1 (August 11, 2010)
4. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
5. THAS: A Gentle Structure (January 30, 2011)
6. Spontaneous Combustion (Tobe Hooper, 1990) 1 (April 29, 2011) ★
7. THAS: Three Love Scenes (August 15, 2012) ★
8. #1 (November 14, 2012)
9. "The Inanimate Moment" (February 8, 2013)
10. THAS: Scene from 'Spontaneous Combustion' #1 (February 20, 2013) ★
11. THAS 2014: The Top 10 Most Important Hooper Scenes (January 9, 2014) ★
Tobe Hooper's Night Terrors
1. THAS: Scene from Tobe Hooper's Night Terrors - THAS Presents... & Scene Study: 'Genie and Sabina's First Meeting' (January 25, 2010) ★
2. Annex: Still #1 (June 18, 2010)
3. Annex: Still #2 - 'It's alright... I've called the police." (June 19, 2010)
4. Annex: Still #3 (June 19, 2010)
5. Annex: Still #4 (June 19, 2010)
6. Annex: VHS vs. Widescreen Print (June 21, 2010)
7. THAS: The Film Grammar I - Grammar - "Genie...? BETH!!!!" Re-visit (March 31, 2010) ★
8. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
9. THAS: Hooper Trope #1: The Mathematical Scene, I (January 22, 2012) ★
10. Annex: Audio from a scene from Night Terrors / THAS Extended Write-up - Classicism, Musical or Otherwise (May 15, 2012) ★
11. THAS: Hooper Trope #1: The Mathematical Scene, I (January 22, 2012) ★
12. THAS: Three Love Scenes (August 15, 2012) ★
13. THAS: Night Terrors, Pt. 1 (March 26, 2013) ★
14. THAS: Scene from 'Night Terrors' #2 - Towering Concept - "Such enthusiasm! I commend you." (July 16, 2013)
15. THAS: Night Terrors 2, or "Images of Genie" (December 23, 2013) ★
16. THAS 2014: The Top 10 Most Important Hooper Scenes (January 9, 2014) ★
17. THAS: "Architectural Brace" Week: Day 5: The Provincial Turret (May 30, 2014) ★
The Mangler
1. Poster Art (May 7, 2010)
2. Annex: Photo Set #1 (July 7, 2010)
3. THAS: Hooper in the 90s & the Art of the Exquisite Shot-Reverse Shot - Case #2 - Scene Study: 'Lin Sue's Seduction' (August 26, 2010) ★
4. Annex: Photo Set #2 - Malicious Circling (September 5, 2010)
5. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
6. THAS: Scene from The Mangler #1 - Tapestry - Three Women (September 16, 2010)
7. Annex: 7 Stills from the climax of The Mangler (October 5, 2010)
8. THAS: The Mangler, Pt. 1 (September 18, 2012) ★
9. #2 (November 22, 2012)
Toolbox Murders
1. THAS: The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010)
2. Annex: Photo Set #1 (October 31, 2010)
3. THAS: On 'Toolbox Murders' (October 31, 2010) ★
4. Annex: Photo Set #2 (March 23, 2011)
5. THAS: A Laundry Scene (November 17, 2011)
6. THAS: Melodiousness - Laundry Journey (March 24, 2012) ★
Mortuary
1. THAS: The Perils of Pre, & John Carpenter (August 9, 2009) ★
2. Annex: Photo Set #1 (July 17, 2010)
3. THAS: Mortuary, Pt. 1 (December 25, 2011) ★
4. THAS: Mortuary, Pt. 2 - The Kindness of the Camera (June 30, 2012) ★
"Dance of the Dead"
1. Annex: Photo Set #1 - Night Ride (October 16, 2010)
2. Annex: 4 Stills from "Dance of the Dead" - A Kiss (October 17, 2010)
3. Annex: Scene from Vincente Minnelli's 'Two Weeks in Another Town' (February 18, 2011) ★
4. THAS: Images from the finale of "Dance of the Dead" (July 16, 2012) ★
5. THAS 2014: The Pie Shot (February 28, 2014)
Djinn (Yet Unreleased)
1. THAS: "I would always Go to Sacred Chow on Sullivan... or Mama's over on Avenue A..." (February 26, 2015)
Tobe Hooper, General & Miscellaneous (* = cross-referenced above)
1. * THAS: The Perils of Pre, & John Carpenter - Hooper vs. Carpenter (August 9, 2009) ★
2. THAS: Miscellany You Need to Know About! #1 (October 17, 2009) ★
3. THAS: Hooper on the 'Tube and 'Round the Web #1 (March 26, 2010)
4. It Seems... (May 20, 2010)
5. * THAS: Scene from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II #1 - Hooper and the Non-illusory Arts (May 22, 2010) ★
6. Making Movies Excerpt #1 (July 30, 2010)
7. Making Movies Excerpt #2 (July 31, 2010)
8. Making Movies Excerpt #3 - "... that’s so far from me, it’s absurd, but people had a tendency to identify me with the madness in my movie." (August 5, 2010)
9. Picture - Tobe Hooper's Spider-Man (August 14, 2010)
10. * THAS: Hooper in the 90s & the Art of the Exquisite Shot-Reverse Shot - Case #2 - Hooper in the 90s (August 26, 2010) ★
11. Annex: Hooper and WOLFEN (September 4, 2010)
12. * The Hooper Challenge (September 21, 2010) ★
13. Some Notes (Kant Rears His Head) (January 10, 2011) ★
14. OSCARS SCHMOSCARS. TOBE HOOPER'S DJINN! (February 28, 2011)
15. Interview with Tobe Hooper - VICE Magazine - "There was no opera... that I like to put into my films." (March 11, 2011)
16. * THAS: The Film Grammar I (March 31, 2011) ★
17. THAS: The Art of the Exquisite Eyeline Match (April 15, 2011) ★
18. Tobe Hooper Q&A - Rolling Stone Middle East - "I take film as seriously as I did in the beginning, and I love it as much." (April 15, 2011)
18. THAS: Tobe Hooper and Genre, Tarkovsky, and Godard (and Rosenbaum and Ishaghpour) (June 29, 2011) ★
19. THAS Announcements (June 30, 2011)
20. Scene from '2001: A Space Odyssey' - The "anti-roller coaster." (July 31, 2011) ★
21. * THAS: Hooper Trope #1: The Mathematical Scene, I (January 22, 2012) ★
22. THAS: Car Textures (February 12, 2012)
23. THAS: Some Immediate Notes on 'The Dark' and 'Venom' (June 19, 2012)
24. THAS: Vincente Minnelli (September 22, 2012) ★
25. THAS: Hooper Challenge, 2nd Edition (January 20, 2013)
26. THAS: Hooper Challenge #3 (May 26, 2013) ★
27. * THAS: Notes on a 35mm Screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (September 15, 2013) ★
28. Annex: Trasmutation in Minnelli - Meet Me in St. Lous (1946) - (September 4, 2013)
29. Annex: Tobe Hooper Quote #1 (September 4, 2013)
30. ANNEX: Joanna Newsom and Tobe Hooper - An indulgence (October 14, 2013)
31. * THAS 2014: The Top 10 Most Important Hooper Scenes (January 9, 2014) ★
32. ANNEX POST: "Bask in Hooper and the Art of Pleasantry," and A Personal Taking Down a Peg of 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (March 16, 2014)
33. THAS: The THAS Official Motto (April 29, 2014) ★
34. THAS: Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Makoto Shinozaki Talking Hooper (An Excerpt from Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Mon effroyable histoire du cinéma") (May 13, 2014)
35. Hooper in the Pantheon (July 27, 2014) ★
Midnight Movie (book)
1. TOBE HOOPER'S DEBUT HORROR NOVEL MIDNIGHT MOVIE OUT ON JULY 12TH (July 6, 2011)
2. Midnight Movie Review (July 25, 2011)
Notable External Reviews
THE FUNHOUSE BLOG
CineOutsider Blu-Ray Review of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 / THE HEISTERS / EGGSHELLS
John Kenneth Muir's exhaustive analysis of LIFEFORCE in his book HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980S (excerpt via Google Books)
Kindertrauma on LIFEFORCE
This Island Rod on LIFEFORCE
Ferdy on Film on SALEM'S LOT
Cinemachine's TCM 2 Audio Commentary
Italian film writer Fabio Zanello (writer of an Italian book on Hooper) on EGGSHELLS
High / Low on SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
A Nightmare on Samityville Street (negative but well-written) on SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
Cinepassion (Fernando F. Croce) on Hooper:
- Lifeforce
- Eaten Alive
