Toolbox Murders
| Toolbox Murders | |
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DVD released by Lionsgate Films
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| Directed by | Tobe Hooper |
| Produced by | Tony DiDio Gary LaPoten Terence S. Potter Jacqueline Quella |
| Written by |
Jace Anderson Adam Gierasch |
| Based on |
The Toolbox Murders by Ann Kindberg, Robert Easter, and Neva Friedenn |
| Starring | Brent Roam Angela Bettis Juliet Landau Rance Howard Marco Rodriguez |
| Music by | Joseph Conlan |
| Cinematography | Steve Yedlin |
| Edited by | Andrew Cohen |
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Alpine Pictures
Scary Movies LLC Toolbox Murders, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate Films Columbia TriStar Film Distribution International (Spain, theatrical) Paramount Home Entertainment (Spain, home video) |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Toolbox Murders is a 2004 horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, and written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch. It is a remake of the 1978 film of the same name and was produced by the same people behind the original. The film centralizes on the occupants of an apartment who are stalked and murdered by a masked killer.
Daisy Rain goes to her apartment in the Lusman Arms, a former luxury hotel undergoing renovations, and is beaten to death with a hammer by a man wearing a balaclava. In another room, new tenants Nell and Steven Barrows, a teacher and a medical intern, are introduced to the amenities and a few of the residents by Byron, the building manager. As Steven works long hours, Nell is left alone most of the time, and befriends Julia Cunningham, a neighbor down the hall, and Chas Rooker, an elderly man who reveals some of the history of the structure, mentioning it was made by Jack Lusman, who disappeared mysteriously, and that builders died while working on it.
As days pass, the Lusman Arms are plagued by mysterious circumstance; strange noises are heard throughout it and coming from the intercoms, Nell finds a trinket containing human teeth in a wall, and Julia and another tenant vanish, having been killed (with a drill and a nail gun, respectively) by the ski masked murderer, who hides their bodies. While looking into Julia's disappearance, Nell speaks with Chas, who offers cryptic warnings about the nature of the building, and sneaks Nell a note reading "Look for her in Room 504". Nell takes the advice, and discovers that there is no Room 504, and that all the other floors lack apartments whose numbering should end with 4.
Nell goes to the Los Angeles Preservation Society, where an employee tells her that Jack Lusman was an occultist who associated with a society that tried to mix science and magic, and that the symbols (which Nell copies down on her arms) decorating the building are part of a spell. The blueprints for the Lusman Arms also reveal that there is a townhouse hidden within the structure, hence all the missing rooms. Nell returns home, and finds a hatch on the roof of the building that allows entrance into the townhouse, where she uncovers a room dedicated to the Golden Age of Hollywood, torture chambers, and dozens of corpses. The killer, who had just butchered another tenant and the handyman, appears, and removes his mask to reveal that he is a monster, which the credits refer to as "Coffin Baby".
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