Toolbox Murders

Toolbox Murders (2004)

If you lived here, you would be dead by now.

A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place.

Date of release
2004-11-12
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (207)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Director
Tobe Hooper
Collection
Toolbox Murders Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Toolbox Murders
  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Toolbox Murders is a 2004 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper, and written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch. It is a remake of the 1978 film The Toolbox Murders and was produced by the same people behind the original. The film is centered on the occupants of an apartment who are stalked and murdered by a masked killer.

Production

Jacqueline Quella stated in one of the production interviews for the DVD release that she'd acquired the remake rights to The Toolbox Murders, but was unable to finish watching the film, calling it a "terrible, misogynistic" film focused on showing little more than women being horrifically murdered, and so she wanted the remake to differ greatly from the original rather than adapt it.

Lucky McKee was originally set to play the part of the killer, but dropped out to work on his own horror film The Woods (2006).

Sheri Moon Zombie acted in the film as a personal favor to Tobe Hooper, who was friends with her husband, musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie.

The tools in the toolbox belonged to Hooper himself.

One of the production companies financing the film dissolved during filming, shutting production down early and resulting in some creative and perfunctory editing.

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