Bad Things
Directed by Stewart Thorndike
When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and mysterious grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones). As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight, they find themselves entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.
A weekend getaway for a few friends at a snowy resort becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.
Cast: Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Rad Pereira
Member Reviews
Why?
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Failed attempt at a modern shining: characters were good, interesting back story and relationships, so much potential, but the ending of a horror movie is so important, and this film did not hit that point at all.
as much as I adore queer horror, this movie felt way too slow and ponderous and, without going into spoilers, the overreliance on mental illness as a plot device is kind of appalling. really did feel like it was trying to be The Shining but queer, and with even more ableism to boot. the ending also sucked. that said, I disagree with other reviewers that the acting was bad; it can be difficult to tell the difference between bad acting and bad writing/direction, but in this case I think it's definitely the latter. the two leads were great, they were just given terrible material to work with.
Terrible….acting is so incredibly bad it’s not watchable.