Name Kim Henkel | Role Screenwriter | |
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Occupation Screenwriter, film director, film producer Movies The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Similar People Marilyn Burns, Tobe Hooper, Justin Meeks, Paul A Partain, Robert Jacks | ||
Butcher Boys (2012)
Kim David Henkel (born January 19, 1946) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as co-writer of the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and as writer-director of its 1994 sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.
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Early life
Henkel was born in Virginia and grew up in several small towns in South Texas. He started at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964 majoring in English and graduated in 1969. Mutual friends introduced Henkel to Tobe Hooper and Henkel acted in Hooper's first feature film, Eggshells (1969).
Career
Henkel and Hooper co-wrote the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre screenplay. Henkel both wrote and directed a sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994). He also wrote and co-produced the Eagle Pennell classic Last Night at the Alamo (1983) as well as the adaptation for Hooper's Eaten Alive (1977).
Henkel returned to the horror genre in 2010 with another tale of cannibals titled Butcher Boys (2011), which was co-directed by two of his former film students Duane Graves and Justin Meeks. Henkel had previously worked with the pair as a producer on their debut feature The Wild Man of the Navidad.
He has been a lecturer in screenwriting at Rice University, and is currently producing the horror film Found Footage 3D.