2018 · thriller · mystery
Bad Times at the El Royale
Directed by Drew Goddard2h 21m2018
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Our read: Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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