The Toolbox Murders
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Movie Reviews of The Toolbox Murders
Movie Review: toolbox terror
Summary: 3 Stars
Far superior in every way to Tobe Hoopers new version, Cameron mitchell stars as the balaclava wearing drill/nailgun weilding maniac who for the first 20 minutes or so lovingly despatches a host of maidens with a different tool in his box everytime. This film is very grisly and is still unavailable uncut in most places, apart from the states of course. After the opening sequences the film becomes a bit mundane and plods along extremely slowly developing into a kidnap drama with a psycho twist but Mitchell is superb and strangely - for an ex-cowboy - extremely believable as the tormentor, the rest of the acting is pretty appalling as you would come to expect from these types of movies but the gore scenes at the begginning are quite shocking, especially the nail-gun scenario. Blue underground havedone a great job of cleaning up the image and is a very worthwhile addition to the horror genre.Movie Review: Hammy Cheeeze...
Summary: 3 Stars
THE TOOLBOX MURDERS is a wonderfully cheeezy 70s movie w/ a boffo beginning, a rather looonng, dull middle, and a semi-interesting finale. It starts out as a bloody murder story, then morphs into a bizarre Hardy Boys-type mystery, and winds up w/ more gooshy deaths! It must have seemed shocking to see women killed by various tools in 1978. Alas, by today's standards this is routine at best. Still, if you like 70s horror, and Cameron Mitchell (THE DEMON) doesn't remind you too much of Bill T. Shatner, then TTM could be a nice diversion...Movie Review: An Original....
Summary: 3 Stars
Fan of good old 70's sleazy, slasher, drive-in horror movies? Then look no further, it's got enough T&A and blood to keep most slasher fans happy, can be brutal at times, has a much better over-all feel than the big budget remake/re-do. Would recommend this over the remake ANYDAY!!Movie Review: Misogynistic trash
Summary: 2 Stars
The first half hour of this film has pretty much most of the violence. And surprise surprise most ( actually all ) of the victims are young women at this stage. Another 14 year old girl is taken hostage in the killers house where it's revealed that it's a 50+ year old man who is on a revenge mission for the death of his daughter. The 14 year old girl has the unenviable position of a) looking like his dead daughter b) being tied to a bed. When he explains why he is killing these women ( most of whom are stunningly attractive ) he says because the women of today " do things which they shouldn't - they're filled with filth." Which doesn't really make sense at all for the seemingly random killings that he carried out. OK the last one may have some suggestion as to why he did it but you'd still be hard pressed to think of that as a motif because it just doesn't add up. The rest of the film laboriously plods on as we try out the detective whodunnit done by 19 year old guys who're suspicious. If you felt uncomfortable in your seat thinking " Come on damn it end for Chrissakes," you would not be alone. It's tedious and well the movie just begs to be finished off quicker. In the ending it certainly springs a surprise or two. Very effective I might add to. One guy dousing his friend and the entire garage with petrol and setting the garage on fire after his friend finds out the truth about the who is the killer. After that it kinda gets really creepy which I'll let you watch without spoiling it. Needless to say it is a pretty good ending. By the way I wouldn't believe that true story nonsense or at least if it is true the director made a complete hash of the whole thing.
However in spite of all that, I still rate it two stars because it is deeply misogynistic, the middle part of the film is horrendously slow to the point of crashing to a halt and the whole film does not strike me as believable. The film is riddled with nonsense which doesn't add up. A shame really, it had all the ingredients for a good movie but you can never trust descriptions fully.
Movie Review: Dull Slasher Flick
Summary: 2 Stars
The Toolbox Murders (1977) is a misleading movie. The first thirty minutes are non-stop carnage and t & a. It makes you think that you're watching a good exploitation/slasher film. However, after that first half hour the movie takes a completely different direction. It becomes a dull psychological drama. There are no more toolbox murders. No more nudity. Just a bunch of boring dialogue that's often lame as well. Also, I have to point out that this movie was remade a few years back by Tobe Hooper. Hooper's movie is far better and really isn't anything like this one. You should watch that one instead since I would give that 4/5. I can only give this one 2/5, and that's just for the first thirty minutes. After that, you should just turn it off if you value your time.