The Toolbox Murders (original)

1978. The Toolbox Murders makes no sense to me. It begins with twenty straight minutes of unruly, awesome gore, and then it switches gears to tell a story of a blowhard that kidnaps an ugly teenage girl to keep her barely tied to a bed. He delivers long, pointless monologues to her while she looks scared. The murders in the beginning have nothing to do with the girl that's been kidnapped. 

The acting and production values are lower than the budget of my blog. The cop in the beginning of the movie switches to being the killer halfway through and someone else steps in to take on the cop role. This role-reversal is explained by the first cop saying, "I'm tired. I need some rest" or something like that. I think they shift the plot because the producers shot the beginning as a short and then didn't know where to go, so they added on another hour. The other hour is written by someone that doesn't know how to write a movie. Characters come and go for no reason and the plot barely goes anywhere. In the end, the kidnapped girl murders her captor and walks through a parking lot. God bless Stephen King who lends the quote from, "generates some genuinely scary moments." Notice the word "some". That's like saying, "This accomplished what it was supposed to accomplish."