The Toolbox Murders (2004)
- Starring:
- Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, (more)
- Director(s):
- Tobe Hooper
- Category:
- Horror
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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 building managed by the sleazy Byron McLieb (Greg Travis), who tries to pass off the ramshackle accommodations as "charming" and "historic." Watching over the Lusman Arms beside Byron is Ned (Adam Gierasch), a greasy simpleton who serves as the building's handyman. Steve and Nell haven't been living at the Lusman especially long when she notices that a growing number of young women living in the building have been meeting a violent death, and with some help from good-hearted part-time actor "Jazz" Rooker (Rance Howard), she begins looking into the murders and makes some disturbing discoveries about both the building management and her fellow tenants. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 94 mins
Complete Cast:
- Angela Bettis - Nell Barrows
- Juliet Landau - Julia Cunningham
- Adam Gierasch - Ned Lundy
- Rance Howard - Chas "Jazz" Rooker
- Brent Roam - Steven Barrows
- Greg Travis - Byron McLieb
- Marco Rodriguez - Luis Saucedo
- Sheri Moon Zombie
- Director(s):
- Tobe Hooper
- Writer(s):
- Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson
- Producer(s):
- Terence S. Potter, Jackie Quella, Tony DiDio
- Categories:
- Horror
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