I just finished watching “The Toolbox Murders.” Premise: a young couple moves into an old Hollywood apartment building. The neighbors are weird, the building manager is annoying, and there is a looming repairman that looks like a Geico caveman.
The apartment building also happens to be dotted in magic symbols and has a long history of mysterious deaths, of course.
The accidental deaths escalate when the couple moves in. Wifey slowly makes friends with the neighbors, and they start dying off. She then (understandably) becomes paranoid and hysteric.
Hubby, the building manager, and the police tell her that she’s off her rocker.
But, of course, she’s not. Cue music.
The music is the scariest thing for the first part of the movie. False jumps galore.
Then, halfway through, when the disfigured (go figure), masked killer is revealed, something strange happens: YOU ACTUALLY START CARING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS! Gasp.
What follows is 30-40 minutes of good-old-fashion horror chase. Yes, I was flailing about screaming at the girl, “YOU BEST GET UP ON OUT OF THERE! GO! GO! GO!”
Haha. I got into it. It was fun.
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