Toolbox Murders

With Toolbox Murders Tobe Hooper decided to take the original slasher from 1978 and create his own version of a killer murdering people with various tools in the environment of an old Hollywood apartment building. It would have been quite opportune for him, however, many sources state that during the production of the movie, one of the main investors pulled out, which lost Toolbox Murders up to a third of the promised funds. This actually shrunk the planned shooting schedule and scattered the action (the perceptive viewer will notice several significant holes in the continuity and logic of this movie) and it is actually quite surprising that it still works in the end, even if only on the really simplest basis. It is interesting that at one point Christian Bale, who was very willing to work with the horror master Hooper, also applied for one of the main roles in the movie, but in the end, this didn’t happen and he devoted his time to more extensive preparation for the role of Batman. Today, he can only be laughing at that. (22/02/2020)