Most of you have probably already seen this wonderfully
weird movie written and directed by Drew Goddard, but I’m just now catching up
with it. BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE is about the sinister goings-on during one
night in the early Seventies at a somewhat seedy resort hotel near Lake Tahoe,
smack-dab on the border between California and Nevada. A priest, a singer, a
vacuum cleaner salesman, and a mysterious young woman are the only guests, and
the clerk who appears to be the only employee is definitely on the shady side.
We know that some sort of crime is going to be involved because of a violent
prologue set ten years earlier, but what it’s going to be takes a lot of
unraveling and filling in of back-stories among these characters.
I love a yarn where nothing is what it seems to be, and that’s the case with BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, which means I can’t talk too much about the plot without ruining things. Well-written, with a great soundtrack and a cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, and Nick Offerman (him again, but blink and you’ll miss him), this is the best movie I’ve seen in quite a while. Highly recommended.
I love a yarn where nothing is what it seems to be, and that’s the case with BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, which means I can’t talk too much about the plot without ruining things. Well-written, with a great soundtrack and a cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, and Nick Offerman (him again, but blink and you’ll miss him), this is the best movie I’ve seen in quite a while. Highly recommended.
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