
Night School(1981)
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds, committed by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer.


“Bit by bit...By bit he carved a nightmare!”
A serial killer, plagued by the memory of a fatal car accident, uses various tools to murder female tenants of a Los Angeles apartment complex, then abducts a teenaged girl who lives there with her family. When the police express doubt that the murders are connected to the girl's disappearance, her brother sets out to search for her on his own.

Cameron Mitchell
Vance Kingsley

Pamelyn Ferdin
Laurie Ballard

Wesley Eure
Kent Kingsley

Aneta Corsaut
Joanne Ballard

Nicolas Beauvy
Joey Ballard

Tim Donnelly
Detective Jamison
Faith McSwain
Mrs. Andrews
Marciee Drake
Debbie
Evelyn Guerrero
Maria

Kelly Nichols
Dee Ann
The Toolbox Murders is a horror, mystery, thriller film released in 1978 exploring themes of tools, murder, slasher, drill, video nasty. Directed by Dennis Donnelly, it stars Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure. A serial killer, plagued by the memory of a fatal car accident, uses various tools to murder female tenants of a Los Angeles apartment complex, then abducts a teenaged girl who lives there with her family. When the police express doubt that the murders are connected to the girl's disappearance, her brother sets out to search for her on his own.
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