20 Most Insanely Depraved Movie Moments From The Video Nasty Era

The Toolbox Murders essentially follows a sicko who seems intent on murdering all of the female tenants in an apartment complex with various tools. Subsequently, a load of women get killed in a sleazy fashion. Pretty standard stuff.

About half an hour in we get what would be remembered as the film’s most iconic sequence, which not only graced the posters, but was held up by any number of outraged feminist groups and newscasters as the most despicable thing ever filmed. Nowadays it seems fairly tame (at least, if you’ve seen enough of these type of films), but at the time, hoo-boy. 

A woman (future porn star Kelly Nichols) disrobes, gets in a bathtub and masturbates to an awful country song. Then the ski masked killer shows up, chases the nude woman around the apartment for a bit and dispatches her with a nail gun to the forehead. The message that many seemed to extrapolated from this scene was that women with such dirty thoughts and desires should be handled accordingly. In other words, simply not having sex can't keep you safe. Sexual pleasure of any kind warrants a grisly demise.