Bad Times At The El Royale -2018- -bluray- -720... __full__

So, dim the lights. Turn up the surround sound. Listen for the ding of the bellhop’s bell. Pour a whiskey. And remember the rules of the El Royale: Room service is terrible, the view is mostly the interstate, but the secrets in the floorboards are priceless.

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Before this, Drew Goddard wrote Cloverfield and directed The Cabin in the Woods . Bad Times is his spiritual sequel to Cabin —both films are deconstructions of genres. Cabin deconstructed horror tropes; Bad Times deconstructs noir and thriller tropes. So, dim the lights

The hotel itself acts as a confessional booth. Characters literally confess their sins to one another, and the film posits the question: Can you atone for the past, or are you defined by it forever? Jeff Bridges’ character, Father Flynn, grapples with a crisis of faith that Pour a whiskey

While the film runs a bit long (over 2 hours and 20 minutes), the tension rarely dips. Chris Hemsworth’s arrival in the third act shifts the genre from a mystery puzzle box into a full-blown home invasion thriller, delivering some of the most unsettling scenes in recent memory.

Drew Goddard loves to play with frame composition. In the 720p BluRay format, you can appreciate how McGarvey uses the rule of thirds to isolate characters in doorways and across the state line.