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The Toolbox Murders

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Movie
1978
1h 33m
English
Horror
Cameron Mitchell stars as the owner of the apartment building that becomes the site of the grisly action. Three attractive female residents of the building, all second floor tenants, are found dead - victims of an appalling multiple murder. All three seem to have met their deaths via the use of one or another type of instrument common to the well-equipped handyman...
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Cameron Mitchell
Vance Kingsley
Pamelyn Ferdin
Laurie Ballard
Wesley Eure
Kent Kingsley
Aneta Corsaut
Joanne Ballard
Nicolas Beauvy
Joey Ballard
Tim Donnelly
Detective Jamison
Faith McSwain
Mrs. Andrews
Kelly Nichols
Dee Ann (as Marianne Walter)
Alisa Powell
Girlfriend
Don Diamond
Sgt. Cameron
Directed By: Dennis Donnelly
Written By: Ann Kindberg (Screenplay), Neva Friedenn (Screenplay), + 2 more

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natebjones says...
a month ago
In the company of other horror giants, indie and mainstream, that released within the same timeframe, this movie feels like it's lacking something. It's sleazy, it's gory, but ultimately it's just OK. I think it's be hard pushed to find anyone who says this is their favourite movie or even top 10. But it's OK and that will suffice.
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jekyl6669 says...
7 years ago
Sure it's pretty sleazy and very obviously a cheap knockoff of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I think it's still a really effective slasher. Especially by the epilogue. It's got some great characters, with real humanity and it's rather grim.
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JPV852
3 years ago
Has its moments of creepiness especially with the killer and his kidnapped teenage victim, and the opening murders were pretty brutal, but the scenes in between with characters I couldn't care less about, was a tad dry. As exploitation movies go, it's okay. **2.75/5**
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Bronson87
CONTAINS SPOILERS4/10  3 years ago
The Toolbox Murders is misleading, and to the degree that it is almost impossible to talk about why without going into spoilers.
This begins as a poorly-made slasher movie, then switches gears midway through. If you were to go by the poster, the tag line or the synopsis, you'd think this was just a More
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Wuchak
2 years ago
**_Effective low-budget slasher beat “Halloween” to theaters in 1978_**

At a Los Angeles apartment complex, four women are murdered by various tools and a girl is missing. Who’s the psycho doing the killing and WHY? Cameron Mitchell (Vance), Wesley Eure (Kent) and Nicholas Beauvy (Joey) hea More
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Charles Tatum
11 months ago
This infamous little slasher flick with the infamous little title is full of blood, violence, and nudity. It is everything you expect from something of this ilk. Supposedly based on a true story, four women in an apartment building are brutally murdered by items normally found in a toolbox. The kill More
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