Sentences with phrase «toolbox murders»

(The latter, with telescope, TRS - 80 Model I, and Toolbox Murders one - sheet festooning his dorm room, may be a forbear of the know - it - all Jamie Kennedy character from the Scream movies.)

Banned as a video nasty in the UK, TOOLBOX MURDERS would be remade by the legendary Tobe Hooper (THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE) in 2004, but nothing beats this original nightmare which, along with HALLOWEEN, heralded a new era of slice and dice madness in the late 1970s.

Never released uncut in the UK before — TOOLBOX MURDERS stars the legendary Cameron Mitchell (BLOOD AND BLACK LACE) as a balaclava - clad badman who stalks and splatters a number of nubile and frequently nude young ladies across a Hollywood apartment block.

Coming to UK Blu - Ray UNCUT and UNCENSORED for the very first time, director Dennis Donnelly's Toolbox Murders is a brutal horror slasher that was previously banned.

Opening with a torrential rainstorm similar to the one that begins Suspiria, Toolbox Murders is, in fact, a fairly transparent Argento pastiche, though it plays a lot more like the English dub of one of the director's many late - career misfires than like classic Argento: the poor exposition is corny instead of poetically abstract (ditto the chasms in logic); the big bad's motive is maddeningly simple yet inscrutable; and the technique has minor virtues as opposed to being virtuoso.

Meanwhile, Quella and Potter, neither of whom have seen Donnelly's The Toolbox Murders in its entirety, are a couple of blatantly opportunistic fuddy - duddies unsuccessfully steered towards intelligent discourse by Scottish film critic Waddell.

A 1 - minute clip («Fearless Tales») from a post-screening Q&A at Genre Fest in which Hooper explains the origins of the term «coffin baby» plus trailers for Toolbox Murders, Riding the Bullet, May, and Crocodile round out the disc.

These might have warranted Toolbox Murders an extra half - star in context, as they're an oasis in a wasteland brought on by a rash of PG - 13 horror flicks.

Toolbox Murders: it's a butcher's - menu of a title whose visceral potential — next time you mention it to someone, watch his or her face light up in mock disgust — almost outweighs its attendant stigma, and while the slayings pack a vicarious punch, nothing about the film transcends its very superfluousness.

Newlyweds Nell and Steven Barrows move into Hollywood's Lusman Arms on the same night a ski - masked psycho launches a killing spree inside its walls — which, carving out a patch of immortality for Toolbox Murders, actually belong to the recently - condemned Ambassador Hotel, where Robert Kennedy met his end and Frank Sinatra sang the songs.

But Tobe Hooper's reimagining of Dennis Donnelly's splatter flick The Toolbox Murders has confirmed for me that I really disagree with a redux of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in principle, irrespective of practice.

He and his coresearcher, Dr. Neil Malamuth, Chair of the Department of Communications at UCLA, believe that the increase in «slasher» films and R - rated violence movies in general («I Was a Teenage Werewolf,» «I Spit on Your Grave,»» Maniac,» «Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» and «The Toolbox Murders») are creating a serious problem in homes where such films are now readily available via cable television and home video.

Edward Donnerstein of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin reported on young men who were exposed to «slasher» films (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Toolbox Murders).

Not exact matches

The entire game is precise, clockwork engineering, sending you ticking from one task to the next, crafting better and better equipment, gradually building a toolbox of murder weapons tailor - made for World's increasingly dangerous enemies.