Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
January 19, 1946 (80 years old)
Virginia, USA
Also Known As
- Boris Schnurr
- Kim David Henkel
Kim Henkel
Biography
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).
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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.
Known For
Acting
Writing
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Characters, Producer
2022
The Dead Don't Die
Thanks
2019
Leatherface
Characters
2017
Found Footage 3D
Producer
2016
Butcher Boys
Writer
2013
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Characters, Executive Producer
2013
Rizzoli & Isles
Location Manager
2010
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Producer
2006
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Original Film Writer, Co-Producer
2003
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Director, Characters, Writer, Producer
1995
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Characters
1990
The Unseen
Writer
1980