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Kim Henkel is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Co-Producer and Editor American born on 19 january 1946

Kim Henkel

Kim Henkel
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Nationality USA
Birth 19 january 1946 (78 years)

Kim Henkel (born Kim David Henkel; January 19, 1946) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

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).

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. 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 is currently a lecturer in screenwriting at Rice University.

Best films

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
(Original Film Writer)
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
(Characters)

Usually with

Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
(10 films)
Marilyn Burns
Marilyn Burns
(4 films)
John Dugan
John Dugan
(3 films)
Robert Jacks
Robert Jacks
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kim Henkel (14 films)

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Actor

Last Night at the Alamo, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Actors Lou Perryman, Kim Henkel, Oscar James
Roles Lionel
Rating67% 3.385883.385883.385883.385883.38588
"The Alamo" is a dive bar in Houston, Texas. On the eve of its demolition, the regular patrons gather to reminisce and discuss the future. In the opening scene, Ichabod (Steven Mattila), a cranky, young exterminator, arrives at the Alamo wanting to have a good time with his long-suffering girlfriend Mary to whom he is both physically and verbally abusive. Also arriving is Claude (Perryman), another blue-collared regular who is angry and distraught over being kicked out of his own house by his wife who is said to be unable to stand his crude lifestyle. Cowboy Regan (Davis) arrives after having not been seen for several days and, after reminiscing with his bar friends, tries a last-ditch effort to save the place by contacting his former college roommate who is now a powerful politician in the state capital of Austin.
Eggshells
Eggshells (1969)
, 1h29
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Allen Danziger, Kim Henkel
Roles Toes
Rating54% 2.711482.711482.711482.711482.71148
Un groupe d'étudiants hippies d'Austin, au Texas, emménage dans une vieille grande maison dans les bois. Cependant, il y a autre chose qui les influence.

Director

The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1h22
Directed by Kim Henkel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks, Paul A. Partain, John Dugan, Marilyn Burns
Rating33% 1.6661951.6661951.6661951.6661951.666195
The film begins with four teenagers at their senior prom: Jenny, Heather, Barry, and Sean. Heather begins to look for her boyfriend, Barry, who is making out with another girl in the darkness. Heather discovers them and attempts to drive away in Barry's car, alongside Jenny and Sean, who are in the backseat. Barry eventually gains access into the car, where Heather scolds him angrily. Heather does not pay attention to the road and ends up wrecking with another driver, who passes out in the ensuing confusion.

Scriptwriter

Leatherface, 1h30
Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Sam Strike, Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, Jacob Tremblay, James Bloor, Simona Williams
Roles Characters
Rating50% 2.513342.513342.513342.513342.51334
The film chronicle events in Jackson's (Sam Strike) teen years, revealing how he became the infamous Leatherface. Violent teenager Jackson escapes from a mental hospital with fellow inmates Bud (Sam Coleman), Ike (James Bloor) and Clarice (Jessica Madsen). The group kidnaps nurse Lizzy (Vanessa Grasse) in their escape. As the group flees with their captive, they are pursued by Hal Hartman (Stephen Dorff), a vengeful and determined Texas Ranger.
Texas Chainsaw 3D, 1h32
Directed by John Luessenhop
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Serial killer films
Actors Alexandra Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Trey Songz, Tania Raymonde, Thom Barry, Richard Riehle
Roles Characters
Rating48% 2.40992.40992.40992.40992.4099
Picking up after the events of the original film, the people of the small town of Newt, Texas, led by Mayor Burt Hartman (Paul Rae), burn down the farmhouse of the Sawyer family for their role in aiding Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer (Dan Yeager), also known as "Leatherface", in several murders. The arsonists are celebrated as heroes in the community, and the entire family is presumed dead. However, an infant, Edith Sawyer, is found by one of the townsmen, Gavin Miller (David Born), who promptly murders her mother, Loretta Sawyer (Dodie Brown), and adopts Edith with his wife Arlene (Sue Rock). Twenty years later, Edith has been raised by Gavin and Arlene as Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario). One day, Heather is notified that her estranged grandmother, Verna Carson (Marilyn Burns), has passed away and left everything to her. Discovering that she was adopted, Heather, her boyfriend Ryan (Trey Songz), and two other friends, Nikki (Tania Raymonde) and Kenny (Keram Malicki-Sánchez), travel to Newt to collect her inheritance. Along the way, the group picks up a hitchhiker named Darryl (Shaun Sipos).
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1h38
Directed by Marcus Nispel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating62% 3.10083.10083.10083.10083.1008
On August 18, 1973, five young adults, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boyfriend Kemper (Eric Balfour) and their friends Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Andy (Mike Vogel), and Pepper (Erica Leerhsen), are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after returning from Mexico to buy marijuana. While driving through Texas, they pick up a distraught hitchhiker (Lauren German) they see walking in the middle of the road. They try to talk to the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about "a bad man." She then pulls out a .357 Magnum and shoots herself in the mouth.
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1h22
Directed by Kim Henkel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks, Paul A. Partain, John Dugan, Marilyn Burns
Roles Writer
Rating33% 1.6661951.6661951.6661951.6661951.666195
The film begins with four teenagers at their senior prom: Jenny, Heather, Barry, and Sean. Heather begins to look for her boyfriend, Barry, who is making out with another girl in the darkness. Heather discovers them and attempts to drive away in Barry's car, alongside Jenny and Sean, who are in the backseat. Barry eventually gains access into the car, where Heather scolds him angrily. Heather does not pay attention to the road and ends up wrecking with another driver, who passes out in the ensuing confusion.
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1h22
Directed by Jeff Burr
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortensen, Ken Foree, Joe Unger, Jennifer Banko, William Butler
Roles Characters
Rating50% 2.504342.504342.504342.504342.50434
The film begins with Leatherface bludgeoning a young woman, Gina, to death with a sledgehammer before beginning the process of cutting off her face in order to make it into a mask. Gina's sister, Sara watches from a nearby window. Leatherface hears Sara outside, and after she flees, he briefly checks outside before going back to work. Some time later, Michelle and her boyfriend Ryan, a couple that constantly argues, both traveling through Texas, pass through a security checkpoint near the excavation of a large number of butchered bodies, a cop approaches them and interrogates them, shortly after they leave and reach the Last Chance Gas Station. At the station, they meet a hitchhiking cowboy named Tex and the station's perverted owner Alfredo. Tex shows Ryan a route on the map that can get them to a town. A fight soon breaks out between Tex and Alfredo when Tex finds the latter spying on Michelle while she uses the station restroom. As Michelle and Ryan flee from the station in their car, they witness Alfredo apparently killing Tex with a shotgun.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1h40
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley, Bill Johnson, Lou Perryman
Rating56% 2.8003852.8003852.8003852.8003852.800385
The film takes place in 1986, 13 years after the events of the first film. It begins with Buzz and Rick, two rowdy high school seniors racing along an abandoned stretch of Texas highway, en route to a weekend of fun in Dallas. They are heavily intoxicated and use their car phone to call and harass on-air radio DJ Vanita "Stretch" Brock (Caroline Williams). Unable to convince them to hang up, Stretch is forced to keep the line open. Buzz and Rick encounter a large pickup truck which runs parallel to them on a remote bridge. Suddenly, Leatherface (Bill Johnson), wielding a chainsaw, emerges from the back of the truck and proceeds to attack Buzz and Rick. After a short struggle, Rick tries to shoot Leatherface with a .44 Magnum revolver, but misses his target. Leatherface then slices off part of the driving Buzz's head, and the car ends up crashing and killing Rick.
Last Night at the Alamo, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Actors Lou Perryman, Kim Henkel, Oscar James
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.385883.385883.385883.385883.38588
"The Alamo" is a dive bar in Houston, Texas. On the eve of its demolition, the regular patrons gather to reminisce and discuss the future. In the opening scene, Ichabod (Steven Mattila), a cranky, young exterminator, arrives at the Alamo wanting to have a good time with his long-suffering girlfriend Mary to whom he is both physically and verbally abusive. Also arriving is Claude (Perryman), another blue-collared regular who is angry and distraught over being kicked out of his own house by his wife who is said to be unable to stand his crude lifestyle. Cowboy Regan (Davis) arrives after having not been seen for several days and, after reminiscing with his bar friends, tries a last-ditch effort to save the place by contacting his former college roommate who is now a powerful politician in the state capital of Austin.
The Unseen
The Unseen (1980)
, 1h34
Directed by Danny Steinmann
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Stephen Furst, Sydney Lassick, Barbara Bach, Douglas Barr, Lelia Goldoni
Roles Writer
Rating52% 2.601232.601232.601232.601232.60123
After a hotel reservation mix up, two sisters Karen and Jennifer, and their friend Vicki Thompson, meet a friendly, but shady character named Ernest Keller who is the owner of a small town museum. Ernest convinces the three women into accepting an invitation for cheap room and board at his large farmhouse outside of town where his wife Virginia also lives. Once there, Jennifer and Karen leave for the holiday parade fair which Jennifer, a news reporter, is reporting on. At the festival, Jennifer is met by her soon to be ex-boyfriend, Tony, who gets her to stay behind to talk about their relationship.
Eaten Alive, 1h31
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Serial killer films, Reptile
Actors Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns, William Finley, Stuart Whitman
Roles Writer
Rating55% 2.750382.750382.750382.750382.75038
After refusing a request from frisky customer named Buck (Robert Englund), naive prostitute Clara Wood (Roberta Collins) is evicted from the town brothel by the madam, Miss Hattie (Carolyn Jones). Clara makes her way to a decrepit hotel, called the Starlight Hotel, located deep in a swamp, where she encounters the middled-aged, mentally disturbed proprietor Judd (Neville Brand) and his pet Nile crocodile in the swamp beside the porch. Upon realizing Clara was a prostitute, the sexualy frustrated Judd attacks her while ranting and raving. When Clare fights back, Judd stabs her with a garden rake and feeds her dead body to the crocodile.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1h24
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen
Roles Story
Rating73% 3.6990053.6990053.6990053.6990053.699005
Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), travel with three friends, Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail), and Pam (Teri McMinn), to visit the grave of the Hardestys' grandfather to investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing. Afterwards they decide to visit the old Hardesty family homestead. Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) who talks about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. They stop at a gas station to refuel, but the proprietor (Jim Siedow) tells them that the pumps are empty.
Eggshells
Eggshells (1969)
, 1h29
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Allen Danziger, Kim Henkel
Rating54% 2.711482.711482.711482.711482.71148
Un groupe d'étudiants hippies d'Austin, au Texas, emménage dans une vieille grande maison dans les bois. Cependant, il y a autre chose qui les influence.

Producer

Found Footage 3D
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.6532052.6532052.6532052.6532052.653205
A group of filmmakers travel to a cabin in a remote part of Central Texas to film the first ever 3D found footage movie. However, they find themselves becoming part of their film and battling for their lives as the evil entity from their film begins to show up in their behind-the-scenes footage.