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Bad Times at the El Royale
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy ensemble mystery thrillers built on shifting perspectives, buried secrets, stylized violence, and escalating moral reckoning.
- Tone
- tense, darkly comic, bleak
- Payoff
- revelation, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- secrecy, redemption, trauma, surveillance, moral corruption
- Setting
- late 1960s, divided lakeside motel during a storm
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