The Toolbox Murders

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R,1hr 35min

Genre:

Horror

Released:

November 1, 2003

Distributor:

Scary Movies LLC

Starring:

Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau ... More

Synopsis: 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 money -- she's just started work as a teacher, while he's a medical student doing his internship. They rent a flat in the Lusman Arms, a once beautiful but now decaying (and therefore affordable) apartment ... Full Synopsis

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	Jason Buchanan, AMG Review 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 ... Read Review

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	Angela Bettis Nell, Nell Barrows Brent Roam Steven Barrows, Steven Juliet Landau Julia Cunningham, Julia Greg Travis Byron McLieb

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