The Toolbox Murders

Um pequeno filme de terror bastante original. Começa como um gore de assassínios sem sentido, com instrumentos de morte sofisticados (berbequim, chave de fendas, pistola de pregos) usados nas belas raparigas, e continua como uma ode psicologicamente tensa a questões de ética cristã versus sexo. Mesmo aqui, porém, o sangue não para de correr e o sentimento de repulsa aprofunda-se a cada minuto. Um «video-nastie» ligeiramente perverso, que atinge um alvo semelhante ao que o trash sem sentido Mulher Violada, por exemplo, tentou atingir sem sucesso. (24/04/2005)

Drilling, hammering, screwing, moistening, and nailing to romantic music… In the first twenty minutes, there’s a fair bit of blood, but then it starts to deviate from genre norms. The unconventional aspect is the amateur-led investigation, the repetition of delusions, and the pretense of psychological drama through a lot of rambling. One might even start to think that the killer in the mask went off to ski in Aspen. I believe the driving force behind the handyman uncle wasn’t a desire to combat sin, but his own toolkit in his underwear. (05/05/2023)

The Toolbox Murders is a well-made and slightly overly-complicated slasher movie with a killer in a ski mask, who rampages around an apartment complex with the help of a variety of tools (definitely more fun than The Driller Killer). Although every now and then the pace drags a bit, it’s definitely one of the more accomplished horror movies on the "video nasties" list. (22/02/2020)