Toolbox Murders

Tobe Hooper ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") does a riveting job on this nail-biting reworking of the 1978 shocker. Tenants are dying to get out of a Hollywood hotel that offers hot-and-cold-running terror and houses a supernatural killer. Brent Roam and Angela Bettis star, with Juliet Landau, the daughter of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, as a tenant named Julia. Director Ron Howard's father, Rance, costars as Chas.