Up next: Steven Spielberg shows everyone how a certain horror subgenre is done.
Reeses Pieces, everybody!
Hint: Spielberg isn't the director of this one.
Not officially. Unofficially he definitely was.
There's a great book out detailing Spielberg's entire career:
Spielberg was contractually bound by Universal not to direct another movie before E.T. but he was on set almost every day. Tobe Hooper was removed from the project in post-production and the film was edited under the sole supervision of Steven.
It even resulted in a cat fight over the font size of each man's name in the film's trailer. Hooper sued and won - receiving financial compensation and...a bigger font size (I can't believe I just wrote that!). He also received a public apology from MGM and Spielberg - although the latter's was worded pretty poorly IMO.