Mitchell does shine getting to showcase his ability to lose himself in complete derangement, but it’s at the expense of scenes that play out far too long acting as something of an exposition dump for the killer’s motive. In fact, Donnelly can never settle on what this story wants to accomplish, leading to scenes that really add nothing to the overall plot development (see the police detective interrogating Laurie’s mom in the bar). This gives The Toolbox Murders an odd pacing that never quite comes together. While it’s easy to focus on the visceral brutality and sexual deviance of the early killings, The Toolbox Murders tries harder to showcase the killer’s lack of reality after tragedy and, to some extent, a police search for missing Laurie (Pamelyn Ferdin) after she’s kidnapped. About midway through, the film loses its exploitative violence in favor of a psychological exploration of Mitchell as a father who has lost his daughter to a car accident, depicted throughout in a series of flashbacks and a truly jarring editing technique during the credits sequence.
The Toolbox Murders is a slasher that also feels in some parts like a giallo, but the script (co-written by Neva Friedenn, Robert Easter, and Ann Kindberg) quickly puts to bed any mystery of the killer’s identity. These killings happen prominently at the beginning of the film, but it’s clear those offended didn’t really see the need to investigate any further – the rest of its 90 minutes are mostly bloodless and particularly uneventful, unless you count Cameron Mitchell’s unhinged performance.
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The incitement comes from director Dennis Donnelly’s use of brutal murders at the beginning of the film that define the serial killer’s MO from the film’s title: returning to an apartment complex, the murderer targets mostly young women as his victims and kills them with various tools from his toolbox including nailguns and hammers.
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1978’s The Toolbox Murders quickly found itself hitting the Video Nasties list due to its portrayal of a “true story” full of atrocities.
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