The Toolbox Murders (1978)

Curiosidades

• Filmado em: Los Angeles

The Toolbox Murders is a 1978 American slasher film directed by Dennis Donnelly and written by Neva Friedenn, Robert Easter, and Anne Kindberg. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Wesley Eure, it follows a series of violent murders taking place in a Los Angeles apartment complex, followed by the kidnapping and disappearance of a teenage girl who resides there. The film was marketed as being a dramatization of true events, though no source can confirm this. It was briefly banned in the early 1980s in the United Kingdom during the "video nasty" panic.

Production

Development for The Toolbox Murders began in 1977 when L.A. producer Tony Didio wanted to make a low-budget horror film after noticing a successful re-release of Tobe Hooper's landmark horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Didio had been intrigued by the film's financial success and, knowing the film's distributors, contacted them inquiring why the film was being re-released so soon.

Wesley Eure was cast in the role of Vance's nephew, Kent, who helps clean the apartment, and who, in fact, turns out to be an accomplice to his uncle's killings. Eure, who had previously appeared on the series Land of the Lost—which had recently been canceled at that time—agreed to take the role as he had been tired of taking "goody-goody roles. I'd been running from dinosaurs and being the perfect son for years, and now I got to be the killer!"

Principal photography of The Toolbox Murders began in the summer of 1977 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles at locations on Sherman Way and Vanowen Streets. The film was shot over 18 days on a budget of approximately $165,000.

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