Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 95'
Landed in Los Angeles to start a new life, Nell and
Steven Burrows house at the Lusman Building, a historic Hollywood
apartment complex. Shortly after their arrival their nighbors start to
die in horrible ways, seemingly killed by hammers, drills and saws by a
misterious presence behind the walls. Inspired by the film of the same
title directed in 1978 by Dennis Donnelly.
"I don't recall seeing the original all the way through but I hope
viewers get a surprise from this film, as we are not doing a remake. […]
Only the title is the same, it's a completely different story; I think
it'll be inspiring. I grew up in hotels, my dad was in the hotel
business and I always wanted to make a film in a hotel, a Hollywood
horror film. Thousands of people come to L.A. every year and some of
them just disappear. Somebody gets them…" (T. Hooper)
Biography
film director
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper (Austin, 1943) made his first film with his family's 8 mm camera at the age of three. Throughout his childhood, he continued to make movies and spend as much time as he could in a movie theatre. In 1974, he helped radically rewrite the horror genre with his classic film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then he directed other successful features, such as the TV movie Salem's Lot, based on the Stephen King's book, and Poltergeist (1982), which spurred two sequels and a television series. In 1996 he directed Dark Skies, a pilot for an NBC science series which received an Emmy nomination. In 2002 he directed the pilot episode of the series "Taken", produced by Steven Spielberg for the Sci Fi Network.
FILMOGRAFIA
Eggshells (1969), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Non aprite quella porta, 1974), Eaten Alive (Quel motel vicino alla palude, 1977), Salem's Lot (Le notti di Salem, TV, 1979), The Funhouse (Il tunnel dell'orrore, 1981), Poltergeist (Poltergeist - demoniache presenze, 1982), Space Vampires (id., 1985), The Equalizer (Un giustiziere a New York, TV, 1985), "Amazing Stories" - Miss Sturdust («Storie incredibili» - Miss Sturdust, TV, 1985), Invaders from Mars (Invaders, 1986), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Non aprite quella porta - parte 2, 1986), Freddy's Nightmares (TV, 1988), "Tales from the Crypt" - Dead Wait (TV, 1989), Spontaneous Combustion (Il figlio del fuoco, 1990), I'm Dangerous Tonight (Il vestito che uccide, TV, 1990), Eye (epis. Body Bags, Body Bags - Corpi estranei, co-regia John Carpenter, cm, TV, 1993), Night Terrors (1993), The Mangler (La macchina infernale, 1995), Nowhere Man (TV, 1995), Dark Skies (Dark Series - Oscure presenze, TV, 1996), Perversions of Science (TV, 1997), The Apartment Complex (TV, 1999), Crocodile (2000), "The Others" - Souls On Board (cm, TV, 2000), "Night Visions" - Cargo (cm, TV, 2001), The Maze (epis. Shadow Realm, co-regia Keith Gordon, Paul Shapiro, Ian Toynton, cm, TV, 2002), "Taken" - Beyond the Sky (cm, TV, 2002), Toolbox Murders (2003).