10 Hidden Gem Slasher Horror Movies
6. The Toolbox Murders
In case the title wasn't a giveaway, The Toolbox Murders is based around a masked fella who kills people with a wide array of instruments you'd find in most toolboxes.
Prior to becoming widely available in the 2000s, this 1978 feature garnered a reputation for being a gruesome video nasty thanks to being banned in the UK. Truth be told, The Toolbox Murders is no more graphic than your average horror offering, but censors of the time were in the midst of banning anything even remotely bloody.
For the most part, The Toolbox Murders focusses on the whodunit aspect of its killer as bodies pile up in an apartment complex. Even when this Dennis Donnelly-helmed picture reveals the identity of its masked murderer, there are still a couple of swerves to come. Plus, this is a film that uses electric drills, hammers, screwdrivers, nail guns and more as inventive murder weapons.
It certainly not worth the notoriety that plagued it for so long, and The Toolbox Murders is one of those essential slasher films that any horror hound worth their salt should be checking out. Also, this is a movie that the legendary Stephen King has as one of his all-time favourites, so that should tell you all you need to know.