History Film / TheToolboxMurders

* TheUnreveal: Vance being the killer is incredibly obvious from the get-go due to his build and rather recognizable eyes.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The sequel, which was in it for several years.

* DivorcedInstallment: The follow-up ''TBK: The Toolbox Murders 2'' morphed into one titled ''Coffin Baby''.

''The Toolbox Murders'' is a [[SlasherMovie slasher-esque]] film and VideoNasty released in 1978.

* VideoNasty: The film was probably labeled one due solely to the title and Dee Ann's death.

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* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Maria getting covered in Deborah's blood, right before she's attacked.

* SnuffFilm: Turns out Austin unknowingly recorded Julia's death via her hacked webcam.

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-->-- 1978 Tagline

-->-- 2004 Tagline

* FollowTheLeader: Producer Tony [=DiDio=] actually admitted the film was only made due to the success of ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre''.

* HollywoodAcid: Used to melt Luis's face off.

'''''The Toolbox Murders''''' is a [[SlasherMovie slasher-esque]] film and VideoNasty released in 1978.

* AmateurSleuth: Joey.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Deborah.

* BadassLongcoat: Vance.
* TheBartender: Al.

* [[ShowerScene Bath Scene]]

* BoundAndGagged: Laurie.

* [[BloodSpatteredInnocents Blood Spattered Innocent]]: Maria getting covered in Deborah's blood, right before she's attacked.

* CreepyBasement: Garage, actually.

* [[AxeBeforeEntering Drill Before Entering]]

** FanDisservice: Dee Ann is still naked when Vance attacks her.
* FinalGirl: Laurie.

* {{Gorn}}

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Vance.

* {{Jerkass}}: Detective Jamison.

* LargeHam: Vance.
* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles
* MalevolentMaskedMen

* MenacingStroll

* MonsterMisogyny

* MsFanservice: Dee Ann.

* PornStache: The coroner.

* PsychopathicManchild: Vance.

* ReactionShot
* ReallyGetsAround: Dee Ann, it's implied.

* TheScourgeOfGod

* VaderBreath

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Kent.

* AmateurSleuth: Nell.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Sterlings.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Daisy Rain.
* BadassLongcoat: Coffin Baby.
* BandagedFace: Coffin Baby.
* BastardBoyfriend: Hans.
* [[BitchInSheepsClothing Bastard In Sheep's Clothing]]: Byron.
* BlackMagic
* BlindingBangs: Ned.

* [[ChainsawGood Buzzsaw Good]]: Ned's death.

* CatScare: Innumerable.

* ClusterFBomb

* CreepyBasement
* CrustyCaretaker: Ned.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters

* DutchAngle

* [[EvilPhone Evil Telecom]][=/=][[HarassingPhoneCall Harassing Telecom Call]]: On random occasions, they make weird noises.

* FanServiceWithASmile: Daisy, presumably.

* FinalGirl: Nell.
* FingerlessGloves: Coffin Baby.

* FormerlyFat: Julia.
* GenkiGirl: Saffron.

* {{Gorn}}
* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]]: A female corpse that is completely split in half is found in Coffin Baby's lair.

* ImplacableMan: Coffin Baby.

* ImprobableWeaponUser

* IWasQuiteTheLooker: Chas.

* LargeHam: Johnny.
* LingerieScene
* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles

* [[MissingFloor Missing Rooms]]: All apartments ending with the number four.
* MrExposition: Chas and Johnny.
* MythologyGag

* NewAgeRetroHippie: Saffron.
* NiceGuy: Luis.
* OffscreenTeleportation

* ReactionShot
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Coffin Baby.
* TheRemake

* SaltAndPepper: Officers Stone and Jacobs.

* [[SinisterScrapingSound Sinister Hammering Sound]]

* ThousandYardStare: Ned.

* TurnOfTheMillennium

* DramaticUnmask: Coffin Baby pulls off his ski mask, revealing his fucked up, [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Cenobite]]-like mug.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Seemingly promiscuous women are violently murdered with extremely phallic makeshift weaponry. In order, they're drilled, hammered, screwed and nailed.

The film had a remake, simply titled ''Toolbox Murders'' and directed by 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..

* OffTheShelfFX: Most of the tools belonged to Tobe Hooper.

The film had a remake, simply titled ''Toolbox Murders'' and directed by 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, tentively titled ''TBK: The Toolbox Murders'', began production in 2011.

-->1978 Tagline

-->2004 Tagline

The film had a remake, simply titled ''Toolbox Murders'' and directed by TobeHooper of ''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, tentively titled ''TBK: The Toolbox Murders'', began production in 2011.

* HairOfGold: Laurie.

* HairOfGold: Nell.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: While generic radio music plays over most of the murders, a creepy suspenseful score is used for several completely mundane scenes.

* LosAngeles

* LosAngeles

The film had a remake, simply titled ''Toolbox Murders'' and directed by TobeHooper of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' 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, tentively titled ''TBK: The Toolbox Murders'', began production in 2011.

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.

As a point of trivia, StephenKing has mentioned the original is one of his favorite horror films.

* {{Expy}}: Coffin Baby kinda looks like a live-action version of the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Rat King]].

The film had a remake, simply titled ''Toolbox Murders'' and directed by TobeHooper of ''TheTexasChainSawMassacre'' 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, tentively titled ''TBK: The Toolbox Murders'', began production in 2011.

* DramaticUnmask: Coffin Baby pulls off his ski mask, revealing his fucked up, [[{{Hellraiser}} Cenobite]]-like mug.

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks

* ChekovsGun: The runes Nell draws on her arms.