The Toolbox Murders was American Psycho and Natural Born Killers before the NRA started… Lord help us, what did these pictures say about the state of the culture?
The police became interested in these studies, as did the government.
Will these people never learn?
Apart from Cameron Mitchell, Donnelly did have two other things going for him.
The plot is a simple one.
But what do you expect for a $165,000 movie?
The rest of the film surrounding it, though, is another story.
For a picture that takes the form of a whodunnit, theres never any real question about whodunnit.
Unfortunately theres simply not too much else going on here apart from the bathtub scene and Mitchells performance.
Maybe it doesnt matter.
The joke was on the do-gooders, though.
They made this cheap little, ignored film a hit.
So a few years later they started looking at videogames instead.
Rating:
2.5 out of 5
