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A new episode of the Revisited video series has just made its way online, and with this one we’re celebrating the birthday of the late, great director Tobe Hooper by looking at one of his more underrated horror films: the 2004 release Toolbox Murders (watch it Here)! You can hear all about it in the embed above.

Toolbox Murders is technically a remake of the 1978 film The Toolbox Murders, but it’s very different from the source material. Written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, this one has the following synopsis: Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable, but now decaying, apartment block in Los Angeles, and soon realise that a number of young female residents have met unusually violent deaths. Before long, Nell makes some disturbing discoveries about the building’s manager and her fellow tenants.

The film stars Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Marco Rodríguez, Rance Howard,...

The 2004 shocker The Toolbox Murders makes its long-awaited big-screen debut (locally at least) this weekend when it plays at the Tivoli Theater in St. Louis Friday and Saturday nights at midnight as part of the Tivoli’s Reel Late series. Brent Roam, one of the film’s stars and a St. Louis native, will be attending both nights to answer questions and sign autographs.

The Toolbox Murders tells the tale of Nell and Steven Burrows (Angela Bettis and Brent Roam), who move to Los Angeles to start a new life together. When they move into the Lusman Building, a historic Hollywood apartment complex, Nell and Steven find themselves caught into a web of terrifying evil. A ruthless killer lurks inside, somehow moving sight unseen from apartment to apartment murdering various unsuspecting victims. They are beaten to death with hammers, gored with drills, shot with nailguns, and get the top half...

Forget Hunger Games, the real teen slaughter Olympics is Battle Royale and it is finally making its big-screen debut in St. Louis! And so is Tobe Hooper’s 2004 remake of The Toolbox Murders with star (and St. Louis native) Brent Roam in person no less! And who can forget The Room (you know you can’t – no matter how hard you try!). These movies and more are on the new schedule for St. Louis’ Tivoli Theater’s Reel Late Midnight series! Some ’80s cult midnight standards comprise much of the schedule but the Tivoli is reaching all the way back to 1954 to present Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (look for our Top Ten Tuesday – The Best of Alfred Hitchcock article next week and see where Rear Window places – it’s up there!) All films are shown in the Tivoli’s large auditorium. We Are Movie Geek’s own Tom Stockman...