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Tobe Hooper On ‘Buick 8’, Reunites With Moseley!
This evening marked the 6th Annual Eyegore Awards, along with the opening of Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, which will be ongoing through November 1st in Hollywood, CA (read more about it here). Also on the red carpet, we had the pleasure of talking with horror legend Tobe Hooper, who chatted a bit about his forthcoming Stephen King adaptation, From a Buick 8. What’s for dessert you ask? How about a little cameo by Bill Moseley, reuniting the duo of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2! Read on for the skinny!
Right off the bat director Tobe Hooper (the original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE) updated us on his next project, FROM A BUICK 8, which is the latest Stephen King adaptation, which is being penned by John Schaech and Richard Chizmar.
“Just a few days ago I got the screenplay… it’s great” he tells SpookyDan on the red carpet. “We start casting relatively soon. It’s really cool.”
Hooper also revealed that the film is going to be pretty damn gory, giving away a pretty sweet gag that hopefully we’ll someday see on the big screen.
“It’s got a little bit more visual [elements]…. there is a a vacuuming scene where someone blows smoke into something he aught not. The hair is going forward, the skin’s loosening, eyeballs are coming [out]…. It’s gory, really
“[There’s] a mix of CG and practical,” he explains. “A little CG to touch up the flaws and then the practical. I love practical.”
But the real highlight of the night was watching Bill Moseley reminisce on his role as Chop Top in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, which directed by Hooper back in 1986.
“I loved it [working with Tobe], it was a life changing experience,” Moseley says with a huge smile. “Tobe, I owe all of my career to Tobe. He hired me an encouraged me…”
Hooper plays Mr. humble giving Bill the credit.
“Bill got the job already… but when we met it him, he was in Savini’s chair with his head shaved and his appliances being twittered about with – to develop that Chop Top look… I still have that coat hanger,” he says while sharing a laugh with an old friend.
Inside Hooper and Moseley would both be receiving an award for their career achievements.
Moseley is currently lensing THE TORTURED for Twisted Pictures in Vancouver, Canada.
Pictured Below: Tobe Hooper enjoys the dinner table scene in the Universal Halloween Horror Nights haunted-maze, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back in Business”. You too can walk through this event until November 1st.
A hospital stay grows more nerve-frazzling when memory loss distorts reality in our exclusive clip from This Tempting Madness, inspired by a true story.
The mind-bending psychological thriller will be released in select theaters and on demand on June 12 via Vertical.
Simone Ashley (“Bridgerton”) stars as Mia, who awakens from a coma, grievously injured, her memory fractured. As she puts the pieces of her past together, she starts to question her own actions and her perception of reality.
In This Tempting Madness, “Mia awakens from a coma grievously injured, her memory fractured. As she puts the pieces of her past together, she starts to question her own actions, and her perception of reality.”
Jennifer E. Montgomery makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with director of photography Andrew Davis, inspired by Montgomery’s first-hand experience with tragedy involving her best friend.
“Months before the incident, there were signals that her world was unraveling,” says Montgomery. “I could feel the pressure building, though I didn’t know what form it would take. I never could have known what violence would come, and I certainly never imagined making a film about it.”
Austin Stowell (“NCIS: Origins”), Suraj Sharma (Happy Death Day 2U), Mojean Aria (Reminiscence), Amol Shah (“For All Mankind”), and Zenobia Shroff (“Ms. Marvel”) round out the cast.
Smoke Jumper Films and Mango Monster Productions produce in association with Catchlight Studios (Heretic, The Blackening).
This Tempting Madness is rated R for “language, violence/bloody images, and brief sexuality.”