Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety
of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in
crisis. Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder
thanks to his 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,
Hooper nevertheless was instrumental in the development of a robust
and deeply political horror genre from the 1960s until his death in
2017. In American Twilight, the authors assert that the director
was an auteur whose works featured complex monsters and disrupted
America's sacrosanct perceptions of prosperity and domestic
security. American Twilight focuses on the skepticism toward
American institutions and media and the articulation of uncanny
spaces so integral to Hooper's vast array of feature and
documentary films, made-for-television movies, television episodes,
and music videos. From Egg Shells (1969) to Poltergeist (1982),
Djinn (2013), and even Billy Idol's music video for "Dancing with
Myself" (1985), Tobe Hooper provided a singular directorial vision
that investigated masculine anxiety and subverted the idea of
American exceptionalism.
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