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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Tobe Hooper in the 1980s AUGUST 12 to 20 show poster

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Tobe Hooper in the 1980s AUGUST 12 to 20 at Museum of Modern Art

Dates: (8/12/2024 - 8/20/2024 )

Theatre:

Museum of Modern Art


The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues New York, NY 10019
New York,NY 10019

Tickets: General Admission

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Presented in conjunction with our weeklong run of Tobe Hooper’s legendary The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), this series highlights the late director’s celebrated and controversial genre films of the 1980s: The Funhouse (1981), Poltergeist (1982), Invaders from Mars (1986), Lifeforce (1985), and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). After starting the decade with the classical slasher The Funhouse (which earned him a chapter in Quentin Tarantino’s book Cinema Speculation) and a high-profile collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Poltergeist, Hooper turned to science fiction with a B-film-inspired remake of Invaders from Mars, followed by the bizarre, ill-fated space-vampire epic Lifeforce. Hooper closed out his ’80s run with the delirious sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, which is considered by some superior to the original. Although he continued to challenge taboos—and decorum—on screen in the ’90s and into the 2000s, promising Hooper horror titles like Spontaneous CombustionThe ManglerNight Terrors, and Toolbox Murders failed to impress critics or attract audiences.



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