User blog comment:Raidra/RIP, Tobe Hooper/@comment-26030957-20170831043226

An incredible icon who will be truly missed.

His version of Salem's Lot, which forsake the dapper vampire of King's novel for a literal vampire, is what turned me onto horror. I will always remember watching it as a little kid, perched upon a stool in our kitchen. Truly amazing.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the greatest films ever made. It is on the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, which I believe, says it all. Anyone who knows me here knows how I feel about this masterpiece and what it represents.

Poltergeist is another classic piece of cinema. A story about the death of the American dream. While the parents smoke pot, their daughter is stuck inside a television. A tree crashes upon the son's room. The older, teenage daughter, runs away from home. And the whole place is built upon a graveyard. Absolute genius. And the way it opens with the National Anthem? Iconic and indelible to the psyche of Americana.

I also loved Eaten Alive, if for nothing else its incredible campiness and Robert Englund! As well as the bizarre vampire movie Life Force, which I saw in the theater as a kid.