The hotel is a faded glory, its better days long behind it and now stands isolated and mostly unused, the sort of place where most of the residents are intentionally staying off the radar, escaping from their back stories.
Convenient, that, otherwise the film would be about a bunch of dull people stopping over before uneventfully making their way onwards the next day.
Of course the few guests and staff at the hotel all have secrets, and they're slowly revealed over the lengthy running time, eventually leading to a Charles Manson-like cult leader arriving and taking everyone hostage whilst demanding a runaway rejoins his group of loonies.
2hr20mins, but fills it well and we wasn't bored. Well acted, fun, interesting and feels almost like an extended Twilight Zone episode.
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