Kim Henkel

Kim David Henkel born January 19 1946 is an American screenwriter director producer and actor He is best known as the cowriter of Tobe Hoopers horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Henkel and Hooper cowrote 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 coproduced the Eagle Pennell classic Last Night at the Alamo 1983 as well as the adaptation of Hoopers Eaten Alive 1977 Henkel returned to the horror genre in 2012 with another tale of cannibals titled Butcher Boys 2012 film which was codirected 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