History Film / TheToolboxMurders

%%* DropTheHammer: Deborah's death.

%%* DropTheHammer: Daisy's death.

%%* DaylightHorror: Joey and Vance's deaths.

%%* SaltAndPepper: Officers Stone and Jacobs.

%%* ManOnFire: Joey's death.

The film had a remake, simply titled ''Toolbox Murders'' and directed by Creator/TobeHooper of ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' fame, in 2004. Besides being set in an apartment complex and having an antagonist who kills with the contents of a toolbox, it was largely InNameOnly, and went as far as featuring supernatural elements. After simmering in DevelopmentHell for several years a sequel entitled ''Coffin Baby'' was released in 2013..

* BoomHeadshot: How Vance finishes Dee Ann off.

* BuryYourGays: If Deborah actually was a lesbian.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Well, it is called ''The Toolbox Murders''.

* DramaticPause: Used in the tagline, for some reason.
* DropTheHammer: Deborah's death.

* ManOnFire: Joey's death.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Used for the first four deaths.

->''If you lived here, you'd be dead by now.''
-->-- '''2004 Tagline'''

* DaylightHorror: Joey and Vance's deaths.

* DeathBySex: If masturbation and rape count, Dee Ann and Kent.

* GoryDiscretionShot

* LadyDrunk: Mrs. Andrews, and probably Joanne.

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* NailEm: Dee Ann's death.

* ShirtlessScene: Kent gets one, after raping Laurie.

* ThisIsADrill: Mrs. Andrews's death.

* AbandonedArea: Segments of the building.

%%* BandagedFace: Coffin Baby.%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Byron.

* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Close call with Austin.

* ChaseScene: The last third or so is just one long one.
* ChekhovsGun: The runes Nell draws on her arms.

* TheChosenOne: Nell, at least according to Chas.

* CurtainCamouflage: Right before Julia's death.
* CutPhoneLines: Coffin Baby possibly unintentionally severs them while attacking Ned.

* DeathByCameo: Sheri Moon Zombie's character Daisy.

* DropTheHammer: Daisy's death.

* FetusTerrible: Coffin Baby's origin.

* GirlishPigtails: Julia sports them twice.

* HooksAndCrooks: Throughout Coffin Baby's lair.

%%* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles

* MindScrew: More and more questions are raised as the film progresses.

* NeckLift: Done to Steve.
* NeckSnap: Hudson's death.

* OffWithHisHead: Ned's death, partially.

* SlashedThroat: With a claw hammer, no less.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Happens to Nell.
* ThisIsADrill: Julia's death.

* TortureCellar: Coffin Baby has a pretty creepy one.

* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: They actually were.

* BathKick: Done by Dee Ann.

%%* AwesomeMcCoolName: Daisy Rain.

%%* BandagedFace: Coffin Baby.
%%* BastardBoyfriend: Hans.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Byron.

* KarmaHoudini: Saffron's BastardBoyfriend Hans survives.

%%* BlindingBangs: Ned.

* {{Meganekko}}: Whenever Nell wears her glasses, it's ''[[{{Moe}} very]]'' cute.

%%* FingerlessGloves: Coffin Baby.

* FlowerInHerHair: Vance sticks one in Laurie's.

Set in California in 1967, the film follows Vance Kingsley, an apartment complex owner who, several months prior to the events of the film, lost his teenage daughter Kathy in a car wreck, a tragedy which sent him spiraling into seclusion and a deep depression, which eventually led to religious mania. Convinced that God took his daughter due to her purity, and that it is ultimately a CrapsackWorld, Vance dons a trenchcoat, leather gloves and a ski mask and embarks on a killing spree through his apartments, gruesomely murdering female tenants who he views as "unsavory" and deserving of punishment with the assorted nasty contents of a toolbox, such as a drill, hammer, screwdriver and nail gun.