After Cannon
Hooper's film career stalled after the troubled productions at Cannon. In the late 1980s, and much of the 1990s, Hooper's reputation as a bankable director was questioned due to the failure of the three films he made at Cannon. When combined, Hooper budgets came to a little more than $40 million, with a total box office income of $25 million. In 1989, Hooper had written a script treatment for a third Texas Chainsaw film, but never developed it further. Instead, he chose to focus on Spontaneous Combustion (1990), a thriller starring Brad Dourif. The film was shot on a budget of around $5 million, but was not successful. Hooper blamed this on constant rewrites and producer restraints. Hooper's next film, Night Terrors (1993) was released straight to video. Hooper would end the decade with two other poorly received films, The Mangler (1995) and Crocodile (2000).
Hooper's notable TV projects include the telefilms I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990) and The Apartment Complex (1999). He also directed pilot episodes for Freddy's Nightmares (1988), Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories (1991), Nowhere Man (1995) and Dark Skies (1996), and an episode of Tales from the Crypt; as well as the segment "Eye" from the TV trilogy film, John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993).
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