Toolbox Murders
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Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 7 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis: New to Los Angeles, Nell (Angela Bettis) and Steven Barrow (Brent Roam) rent an apartment in the Lusman Building. Built in the 1940s, this luxurious art deco hotel was a playground for the rich and famous in Hollywood's heyday. Later it fell on bad times…but now the old building is being... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Angela Bettis, Juliet Landau, Sheri Moon, Brent Roam, Chris Doyle
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06/24/06
Saying The Toolbox Murders is the finest Tobe Hooper film since The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ... isn’t saying much.
06/20/05
...Hooper creates a film that's almost as effective as his first big success - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
03/15/05
In a genre where so many titles disappoint, Hooper makes sure that this one won’t.
03/14/05
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11/13/04
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11/13/04
Toolbox Murders is arguably the movie everyone has been waiting for Hooper to make since Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
11/09/04
A truly vicious, gruesome and utterly ludicrous movie that exists only to make us jump in our seats.
11/08/04
Tobe Hooper’s latest is not unlike an episode of Melrose Place as imagined by Lucio Fulci.
08/14/04
Toolbox may not renew the splatter genre in any significant way, but the chills and kills prove Hooper, when armed with the right script, can still tighten the fright screws.
08/02/04
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I suspect one might as well just place the audience in a room and periodically make sudden loud noises.
04/13/04
This one might just be a small blip on the current Horror Remake horizon, but it's a knowingly nasty and entirely enjoyable throwback to a slashier time.
04/06/04
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