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Kim Henkel
Virginia, USA
Kim David Henkel (born January 19, 1946) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of Tobe Hooper's horror film The Texas Chain…
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Kim David Henkel (born January 19, 1946) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of Tobe Hooper's horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. 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 (1995). He also wrote and co-produced the Eagle Pennell classic Last Night at the Alamo (1983) as well as the adaptation of Hooper's Eaten Alive (1977). Henkel returned to the horror genre in 2012 with another tale of cannibals titled Butcher Boys (2012 film), 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. Most recently, he produced the horror film Found Footage 3D, which was released on the horror streaming service Shudder in 2017. He has been a lecturer in screenwriting at Rice University.
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2027
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie Producer
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2024
Dinner with Leatherface
Movie Self
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2022
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie Characters
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2019
The Dead Don't Die
Movie Thanks
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2018
Also Starring Austin
Movie
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2017
Leatherface
Movie Characters
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2016
Found Footage 3D
Movie Producer
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2013
Butcher Boys
Movie Writer
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2013
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Movie Characters
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2010
Rizzoli & Isles
TV show Location Manager
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2006
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Movie Producer
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2003
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie Original Film Writer
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2002
The Hypostatic Union
Movie Producer
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2000
Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth
Movie Self
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
- 1996
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1995
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie Director
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1994
Doc's Full Service
Movie Writer
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1990
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Movie Characters
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1986
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
Movie Characters
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1984
Last Night at the Alamo
Movie Lionel
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1980
The Unseen
Movie Writer
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1976
Eaten Alive
Movie Adaptation
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1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Movie Story
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1971
Eggshells
Movie Toes
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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