Texas Chainsaw Massacre never managed to make the Video Nasties list so perhaps Tobe Hooper was trying to redress the balance when he decided to remake old pre-cert favourite The Toolbox Murders, the movie that actually made B&Q fashionable and angered thousands of do-gooders up-and-down Britain back in the early eighties. Hooper here is trying to recapture the feel of the old-fashioned stalk-and-slash movie by piling on the gore and pushing the right scare buttons to produce the most crowd-pleasing frightener in recent years ( honest, that’s what is says here! I haven’t seen it!). This new 2 disc edition may feature the “American Nightmare” documentary and all the usual commentary and trailers etc., but sadly wont feature Cameron Mitchell singing, “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” before nail-gunning Marianne Walter in the head - still The Toolbox Murders is released by Anchor Bay UK on 11th April.
