Kim Henkel
Screenwriter, Film writer
1946 –
Who is Kim Henkel?
Kim Henkel 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.
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 as well as the adaptation for Hooper's Eaten Alive.
Henkel returned to the horror genre in 2010 with another tale of cannibals titled Butcher Boys, 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.
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1946
Virginia - Also known as
- Kim Henkal
- Kim David Henkel
- Boris Schnurr
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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