Bad Things

Name: Bad Things
Genre: Horror
Released: August 18, 2023
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Ariella Josephine, Dana Slosar, Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef

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Shudder | Release Date: August 18, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Ariella Josephine, Dana Slosar, Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Holland Smith, Jared Abrahamson, Molly Ringwald, Patrick Klein, Rad Pereira

Summary: 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 andWhen 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), whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.… Expand

Director: Stewart Thorndike

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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Collider Chase Hutchinson

Aug 17, 2023

Playing out almost like a spoof of various genres with both macabre horror and mumblecore misdirects, it's an odd film that's often as lost as the charming characters themselves before settling into a strange groove that starts to cast a spell of its own. Read full review

Matt Donato

Aug 18, 2023

Bad Things wants to be quirky, callous and cutthroat before an explosive ending, but never aggressively combusts as we’d hope—even with chainsaws and flesh-cutting blades in play. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Aug 15, 2023

Some of the storytelling gets clotted, leaning too much on the girls shrilly screaming at each other. Bad Things, though, is sharply filmed, with cinematographer Grant Greenberg feng-shuiing the hotel spaces into tone-setting tableaux (with a touch of Twin Peaks’ kitsch). Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 18, 2023

Whatever the dynamics of this troubled, narcissistic same-sex quartet, “Bad Things” feels creepier than it is and promises frights or shocks and explanations it never quite pulls off. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

Aug 18, 2023

Where the central four characters' friendship and intersecting romantic relationships are meant to be the film’s grounding center, there's nothing but flimsy connections and dead air. There’s no chemistry between the characters and no genuine feeling in their performances. Read full review

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