The Toolbox Murders

Tobe Hooper, who directed one of the truly iconic American horror films of the 1970s, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, offers his take on another well-remembered scare-fest of the era with this remake. Steve (Brent Roam) and Nell (Angela Bettis) are a young couple living in Los Angeles who are short on ...more

Infusing elements of his career-defining masterpiece, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with the basic concept of the sleazy 1978 roughie from which this film shares its namesake (and very little more), director Tobe Hooper's The Toolbox Murders cautiously probes into "Three Mothers" territory (see Dario Argento's Suspiria and Inferno) as the 2004 update takes a wild departure from the original into potentially supernatural territory in a genuinely surprising final act. Though Hooper's Toolbox ...more