The Toolbox Murders

Kathleen O'Malley

Cameron Mitchell

Pamelyn Ferdin

Wesley Eure

Nicolas Beauvy

Tim Donnelly

Aneta Corsaut

Faith McSwain

Marciee Drake

Evelyn Guerrero

Victoria Perry

Robert Bartlett

Betty Cole

John Hawker

Don Diamond

Alisa Powell

Kelly Nichols

Robert Forward

Gil Galvano

James Nolan

George Deaton

Dennis Donnelly

Robert Leh

Is the movie The Toolbox Murders based on fact?

Yes. According to the (shortened version here), epilogue at the end of the movie that states: The events in this movie took place in 1967. "Laurie Ballard" spent from 1967 to 1970 in a mental institution. In April 1974, "Joanne Ballard" was killed in a single car crash. 1975 saw "Laurie" marry, and have one child, both live four miles from where here brother "Vance" and "Kent Kingsley" died.

What are the differences between the censored British BBFC 18 Version and the R-Rated Version?

After the movie was put off the video nasties list the film was re-released by Vipco on VHS and later on DVD, but it had to be cut in two scenes to get the BBFC 18 rating. Obviously Vipco has gone a little bit too far to fulfill the target of the BBFC because at least one of the two cuts wasn't demanded in this extent by the BBFC. So in the Vipco version the complete end of the nail gun-murder is missing, while the BBFC already demanded at this point in the much more censored Theatrical version only a small cut and not a complete censoring of the whole scene. Moreover the same version was also released in the UK by Horror Video and Cornerstone. In total here's missing 1 minute and 18 seconds. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.