Daily Inspiration Quote by Tobe Hooper

Hooper talks like a horror director who’s seen the real monster, and it isn’t wearing a mask. The setup is deceptively casual: LA as a yearly pilgrimage site, a place people “come to” in search of reinvention. Then he drops the trapdoor: some “just disappear.” The phrasing matters. Not murdered, not abducted, not even missing - disappear, as if the city itself has an appetite. It’s urban legend syntax, the kind that thrives in a place built on stories.

The line “Somebody gets them” shifts the terror from atmosphere to agency, but Hooper refuses to name the perpetrator. That vagueness is the point. Horror works best when the mind supplies the specifics, and Hooper lets “somebody” stand in for an entire ecosystem: traffickers, predatory employers, exploitative industries, police indifference, the quiet churn of homelessness. LA becomes a machine with too many moving parts to assign blame cleanly.

Then he tosses in a statistic - “around 100,000” - not to prove a claim but to weaponize scale. Numbers in horror aren’t comforting; they’re numbing. They suggest a background radiation of loss that’s been normalized.

“I don’t know what that means” reads like humility, but it’s also a refusal to tidy chaos into a lesson. The final image, “something that just pulls ’em out,” turns disappearance into gravity: a cultural force that selects the vulnerable, the anonymous, the hopeful. Hooper’s intent isn’t to solve a mystery; it’s to underline how easily a dream factory can double as a vanishing point.