🔨 The Toolbox Murders (2004) — Evil Lives Next Door. And It Has the Keys. 🏚️🩸🧰

Home repairs can be deadly — especially when the house is cursed.

Nestled in the shadows of decaying Hollywood, the Lusman Arms apartment building was meant to be a place of new beginnings. For Nell and her husband, it was an escape — cheap rent, faded charm, a second chance in the City of Angels. But beneath its vintage Art Deco exterior lies something far older, far darker, and very much alive.

Tobe Hooper’s The Toolbox Murders (2004) is not just a remake — it's a rebirth of pure urban nightmare. Channeling the dread of Polanski’s The Tenant and the gore of classic slashers, the film transforms a simple apartment complex into a labyrinthine prison of occult horror. Walls bleed, whispers crawl through air vents, and residents begin to vanish — each taken in increasingly brutal, methodical ways by a faceless figure wielding tools meant for fixing… or for killing.

As Nell unravels the building’s twisted history — once a hotel built by a cultist architect obsessed with eternal life — she discovers the killings are not random. They're part of a ritual. And the killer isn't just human… or at least, not anymore.

From rusty drills to claw hammers, the weapons are real. The screams are earned. And the evil? It’s carved into the very foundation. Because when home becomes the hunting ground, there’s nowhere left to run — only downward, into the crawlspaces of hell.

Tobe Hooper resurrects the grindhouse spirit with surgical precision, blurring the line between slasher terror and Lovecraftian rot. The Toolbox Murders doesn’t just kill — it builds horror one brutal strike at a time.