Ranking Every Tobe Hooper Film From Worst To Best
11. Toolbox Murders
Death by power tools became something of a running theme for Toby Hooper during his career, and he had a field day with it in 2004 when he remade Toolbox Murders.
Sticking a screwdriver into the temple of the 1978 original's gritty realism, Hooper reimagined the movie as a bog-standard slasher with twisted DIY.
Toolbox Murders never aspires to be anything more than that, and that's fine if you're into the whole masked stalker thing. The kills are rarely less than creative and gruesome, and the suspense-o-metre occasionally leaves second gear.
Hooper delivered a tight slasher movie here, albeit a by-numbers offering that took a different approach to the grounded original.