{"id":8604,"date":"2017-08-27T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:46:19","slug":"tobe-hooper-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/27\/tobe-hooper-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobe Hooper Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/tobe-hooper-texas-chain-saw-massacre-poltergeist-director-dies-age-74-1202156958\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from DEADLINE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title desktop\">\u2018Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u2019 Director Tobe Hooper Dies At\u00a074<\/h1>\n<p>by <a class=\"name\" title=\"Posts by Mike Fleming Jr\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/mikefleming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Mike Fleming Jr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NR8yfhZUTK8\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"auto-tag_tobe-hooper\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tobe-hooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"tobe-hooper\">Tobe Hooper<\/a>, one of the pioneers of the horror genre, died Saturday at age 74. He passed in Sherman Oaks. Hooper made two of the most distinguished films in the fright genre. His low budget 1974 film<em> The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,<\/em>\u00a0which gave a glimpse of the frightful potential of a power tool, and became a favorite on the drive in theater circuit. Made at a cost of $300,000, the film grossed over $30 million at the domestic box office. He also directed <em>Poltergeist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"auto-tag_tobe-hooper\" href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tobe-hooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"tobe-hooper\">Tobe Hooper<\/a>, one of the pioneers of the horror genre, died Saturday at age 74. He passed in Sherman Oaks. Hooper made two of the most distinguished films in the fright genre. His low budget 1974 film<em> The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,<\/em>\u00a0which gave a glimpse of the frightful potential of a power tool, and became a favorite on the drive in theater circuit. Made at a cost of $300,000, the film grossed over $30 million at the domestic box office. He also directed <em>Poltergeist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/tobe-hooper-texas-chain-saw-massacre-poltergeist-director-dies-age-74-1202156958\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE \u2018Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u2019 Director Tobe Hooper Dies At\u00a074 by Mike Fleming Jr Tobe Hooper, one of the pioneers of the horror genre, died Saturday at age 74. He passed in Sherman Oaks. Hooper made two of the most distinguished films in the fright genre. His low budget 1974 film The Texas Chain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}