Poltergeist director Tobe Hooper (74) died

Director Tobe Hooper passed away at the age of 74.

Hooper made Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974, a horror movie about a cannibalist family. The character, serial killer Leatherface, is still a horror icon.

In 1982 Steven Spielberg asked for Hooper or he wanted to direct Poltergeist. This film, about a ghost terrorized family, was commercially even more successful than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and also expanded into a classic in the genre.

Other titles that Hooper directed are Lifeforce and a remake of Invaders from Mars. His last movie Djinn delivered him in 2013.