Photo“I walked out thinking, ‘O.K., that’s the way to do it,’” Mr. Hooper said. Mr. Hooper, though, maintained that it wasn’t as gory as many people assumed. “Poltergeist,” a box office hit, found Mr. Hooper working with Mr. Spielberg, who was one of the movie’s producers and writers. Horror movie buffs and others have long suggested that Mr. Spielberg was really the director, but Mr. Hooper chafed at that notion. Assorted other “Chainsaw” and Leatherface sequels and prequels came along, with varying degrees of involvement by Mr. Hooper.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2017 19:48 UTC