Hooper is proposed and affirmed because he had the most career afterwards, a Hollywood hotshot for a while on the Universal lot with Spielberg, directing Poltergeist.
Eight follow-ups exist, including Two, The Next Generation, the Jessica Biel reboot, the Netflix film and the 2017 prequel Leatherface; a Curry Barker reboot is rumored
Eight films followed as sequels, prequels or remakes, including The Next Generation with Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, seen once and called entertaining; Two, also directed by Toby Hooper, is liked a lot, and Kim Henkel, who wrote the original, was involved with The Next Generation.
There was a Jessica Biel reboot, a Netflix film about influencers killed by Leatherface that one participant enjoyed, and the 2017 DirecTV prequel Leatherface starring Stephen Dorff; Curry Barker is rumored to be rebooting it with Glenn Powell possibly involved, coming to Skydance.
For indie horror movies, this and Blair Witch are at the apex.
For final girls, Laurie is called more iconic, with Ripley from Alien also raised; Sally is named the most underrated final girl, while another picks the girl in Friday the 13th Part 2.
A tangent weighs which Friday the 13th the show should do, Part 2 or the final chapter, with a listener vote floated.
Chainsaws are a yes; Texas is a no but cinematic rural, scary Texas is a yes; hot 70s blondes named Marilyn is a no, with Maryland Chambers (as transcribed) instead; Toby Hooper's apex is Poltergeist, which he did direct.
Head cheese is a yes for sure.
For movie murderers, Norman Bates and Lecter are considered and Myers is probably the answer because of his body of work; Leatherface is called a schedule merchant whose victims walk into his house, and grave robbing is something anybody can do.
Hitchhiking is probably not at its apex, but the 1972 Ford Club Wagon they used as the van gets an apex call.
No nude scene despite horror expectations; Sally's 'I'll do whatever you want' plea; only one chainsaw death; the beating the actors took; the sound of the hammer on Kirk's skull
A participant's wife was surprised there was no nude scene shoehorned in as in every horror movie; at the watering hole the hosts expected one, and the family shows no interest in Sally as a pretty young woman, in it for the love of the game.
The victims are not killed because they are having sex but because they go looking for gasoline.
Sally's plea at the dinner table that she will do whatever they want is flagged, though one host counters that she is trying to live.
There is only one chainsaw death, Franklin's, with more hammer than chainsaw, and the actors got beaten up, Marilyn Burns above all, hit in the head with a rubber hammer, landing from windows and running through branches; according to Hooper, everyone hated his guts by the wrap party.
The sound of the hammer hitting Kirk's skull returns whenever the participant cracks a shoulder.
The film is said to have lost its effects, sound-effects and score Oscar nominations to E.T. — Bill Simmons
JoBeth Williams’s career is traced through Kramer vs. Kramer, Stir Crazy, The Big Chill and major television films; she is praised as this film’s driving force. — Bill Simmons
Craig T. Nelson’s long career is surveyed from film roles through Coach, Parenthood and The Incredibles. — Bill Simmons
The curse discussion recounts Dominique Dunne’s murder by her boyfriend and its connection to her father’s later reporting. — Bill Simmons
Heather O’Rourke’s death at twelve during the third film’s production is discussed as part of the curse lore. — Bill Simmons
Lou Perriman’s murder and other deaths are cited in the curse discussion, with a documentary series suggested for further context. — Bill Simmons
Williams is reported to have found pictures repeatedly crooked at home during production. — Bill Simmons
Rubinstein’s reported vision of her dog before learning of its death is presented as another strange anecdote. — Bill Simmons
The clown apparatus is reported to have malfunctioned and actually choked the child actor before the crew intervened. — Bill Simmons
The film’s roughly $10.7 million budget and strong 1982 box office are cited; the transcript garbles the gross. — Bill Simmons
Spielberg’s childhood fear of clowns and a tree outside his window is said to have inspired the movie. — Bill Simmons
The house is said to remain in Simi Valley, California. — Bill Simmons
The televised Rams–Saints game is identified as a 1980 Monday Night Football game, with the Saints losing and Archie Manning struggling. — Bill Simmons
A late-nineteenth-century Denver cemetery incident is cited as an inspiration, correcting an initial garbled date. — Bill Simmons
The collapsing house is said to have been a roughly four-foot model. — Bill Simmons
