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Plot summary
A man in black drives across Los Angeles while a radio preacher talks, and by a car dealership he recalls a crash that killed a young woman at that spot. At an apartment complex he kills Mrs. Andrews, a tenant who knows him, with an electric drill. He puts on a ski mask and kills two more women, one with a hammer and one with a screwdriver. Police question those who found the bodies, and also Vance Kingsley, who owns the building. The next night he breaks into the apartment of a woman in her bath and shoots her with a nail gun, then takes Laurie Ballard, fifteen, who lives in the apartment above with her family.
Cast
- Faith McSwainas Mrs. Andrews
- Marciee Drakeas Debbie
- Victoria Perryas Woman in Apartment
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- According to journalist Linda Gross, the screenplay for The Toolbox Murders was loosely based on a string of serial killings in Minnesota, in which a man attacked women using various tools.
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Wesley Eure was cast as Kent, Vance's nephew, who turns out to be an accomplice to his uncle's killings. Eure, whose series Land of the Lost had just been canceled, said he took the part because he was tired of "goody-goody roles" and of "running from dinosaurs."- The Toolbox Murders gained a cult following in the decades after its release, and author Stephen King cited it as one of his favorite horror films.
