Coffin Baby
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| Coffin Baby (aka: Coffin Baby - The Toolbox Killer Is Back | |
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| Directed by | Dean C. Jones |
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| Starring | Bruce Dern Brian Krause Clifton Powell Chauntal Lewis |
| Cinematography | David Bridges |
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Production company | Atlantic & Pacific Pictures |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Coffin Baby (aka Coffin Baby - The Toolbox Killer Is Back) is a 2013 American horror film written and directed by Dean C. Jones and starring Bruce Dern, Brian Krause, Clifton Powell, and Ethan Phillips. It has been represented as a sequel to 2004's Toolbox Murders, but is not. The majority of the footage in the film was shot for Toolbox Murders 2, the sequel to the 2004 film in which the eponymous toolbox killer, Coffin Baby, resumes his gruesome killing spree from the first film. Actor Christopher Doyle reprises his 2004 role as Coffin Baby.[1][2][3][4] However, distribution of Coffin Baby has been stopped by agreement between Dean Jones and the producers of Toolbox Murders 2.
Plot
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In Hollywood, Samantha Forester (Chauntal Lewis) is kidnapped by "Coffin Baby" (Christopher Doyle), branded, locked in a cage, and forced to witness dozens upon dozens of other Los Angeles citizens being murdered in various brutal ways. When she is reported as missing, police investigators lead by Detective Chad Cole (Brian Krause) interrogate her boyfriend and learn that Samantha's own child was murdered. After 10 days in captivity, Coffin Baby falls in love with Samantha and gives her an orchid. Becoming crazed by her confinement, she herself eats cooked human flesh from another blonde victim.
Upon rescue by police, investigators find the body count is climbed well into the hundreds. Samantha is herself now suspected in the murder of her own 11-month-old child.
Cast
- Bruce Dern as Vance Henrickson
- Brian Krause as Detective Chad Cole
- Clifton Powell as Detective S. Jackson
- Chauntal Lewis as Samantha Forester
- Christopher Doyle as Coffin Baby
- Ethan Phillips as Coroner B. Jones
- Ron Chaney as Detective L. Wehage
- Isabelle Freitheim as Sabrina Forester
- Allison Kyler as Amy Weinstein
- Whitney Anderson as Winter Jones
- Dean Jones as H. Bogart
- Mychal Thompson as Rodney W. Smith
- Douglas Tait as CB double
Production
In March 2011 Dean Jones was hired as the director of Toolbox Murders 2 and shot principal photography for that movie in Los Angeles for the company TMB III Movie LLC. Jones put together his directors' cut of the film for screening at the 2011 Cannes film festival where it was not well received. He subsequently shot additional footage for the Toolbox Murders sequel, but then had a falling out with the producer and in October 2012 he and brother Starr Jones shot additional footage for the film Coffin Baby in Alamance County, North Carolina on locations in their hometown of Graham, North Carolina. Area emergency workers and residents served as extras.[5] Jones and TBM III Movie LLC have since resolved their differences and now stand behind Toolbox Murders 2 as the only film authorized for distribution.
Release
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Reception
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Nav Qateel of Influx Magazine wrote that the film had the potential to be decent but failed.[1]
References
- ^ a b Qateel, Nav (2013). "review: Coffin Baby". Influx Magazine. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
- ^ Harrington (August 12, 2013). "review: Coffin Baby – The Toolbox Killer is back". Angstrated (in German). Retrieved September 3, 2013.
- ^ Raven, Kim (July 30, 2013). "Review: Coffin Baby (Dean Jones, 2013)". De Nacht Vlinder (in Dutch). Retrieved September 3, 2013.
- ^ Barton, Steve (November 20, 2012). "Massive Coffin Baby Image Gallery Exhumed". Dread Central. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
- ^ Glancy, Charlie (October 18, 2012). "Horror movie filmed in Alamance County". MyFox8. Archived from the original (video report) on September 4, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2013.