--- title: 'The Toolbox Murders (1978)' type: 'film' director: 'Dennis Donnelly' released: '1978-03-03' runtime_minutes: 93 genres: - 'Horror' - 'Mystery' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-toolbox-murders-1978' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078405/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Toolbox Murders (1978) 1978 · 93 min · Horror, Mystery · United States ## Synopsis The Toolbox Murders is a 1978 American slasher film directed by Dennis Donnelly and written by Neva Friedenn, Robert Easter, and Anne Kindberg. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Wesley Eure, it follows a series of violent murders centered around a Los Angeles apartment complex, followed by the kidnapping and disappearance of a teenage girl who resides there. The film was marketed as being a dramatization of true events, though no source can confirm this. It was briefly banned in the early 1980s in the United Kingdom during the "video nasty" panic. ## Credits - **Director:** [Dennis Donnelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-donnelly) - **Screenplay:** [Ann Kindberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-kindberg) - **Director of Photography:** [Gary Graver](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-graver) ## Cast - [Pamelyn Ferdin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pamelyn-ferdin) - [Don Diamond](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-diamond) - [Cameron Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/cameron-mitchell) - [Robert Abram Bartlett](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-abram-bartlett) - [Tim Donnelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-donnelly-2) - [Kelly Nichols](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-nichols) - [Wesley Eure](https://cinepixo.com/people/wesley-eure) - [Aneta Corsaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/aneta-corsaut) - [Tim Donnelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-donnelly) - [Kathleen O'Malley](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-o-malley) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-toolbox-murders-1978 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3133377); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.