Masters of Horror: Tobe Hooper: The Damned Thing

This is a cool movie that you will want to watch twice maybe to fully "get". We enjoyed it alot....but not a favorite.

Tobe Hooper, the legendary director behind the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, and Salem's Lot, amde his Masters of Horror debut in the previous season with the very disappointing Dance of the Dead. Hooper returns to Masters of Horror with the first episode of the horror anthology's second season, The Damned Thing. Based on the short story by Ambrose Pierce and scripted by Hooper's Dance of the Dead screenwriter Richard Christian Matheson, The Damned Thing stars Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder, Boondock Saints) as a small town sheriff tracking down a deadly force that causes people to violently kill each other, just as it did years before when it devestated his own family. While the premise is great and the talent involved is promising, The Damned Thing ends up being another disappointing installment in the Masters of Horror series from Tobe Hooper. Hooper just seems to be asleep at the wheel (and director's chair), particularly in the final third of the episode where m... Read more

Good story line with a different ending than some of the usual Master of Horrors.A must see!

Tobe Hooper has had one of the strangest careers in the horror genre; his Iconic reputation stems from his 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but since that his career has been very uneven. While he has directed a couple of popular movies the general conception is Chainsaw is why he is so well remembered and will be. When you look at the era Tobe Hooper came to came a lot of filmmakers were changing the horror world as we know it and I suppose some of these guys are gonna get left in the dust. I'm not quite sure if it was the screenplays or Hooper's directing, but he never quite lived up to what many thought he would go on and become. With that said I very much do think he deserves to be a part of the Masters of Horror even if only for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Damned Thing is a very mixed bad, but after all was said and done I felt as if this movie could have been so much more than what it was. The Damned Thing had the makings of a great horror flick, but somewhere... Read more

After reading 2 of the 3 reviews I wondered why I was going to bother watching The Damned Thing by the very dissapointing MOH series, but was pleasantly suprised. It wasn't great, but trying to find a great MOH story is like stumbling upon gold. As far as they go it was decent. It was a unique idea that had some good acting but failed to provide a solid ending. You only get to see the creature at the end very briefly then it seems to end before you could really understand what happend. But thats here nor there. It turned out to be pretty enjoyable but is nothing to go crazy for.