After a disappointing box office run, Bad Times at the El Royale has already developed a cult following as audiences discover its pulpy charms on home media. It's a stylish, twisty, and wildly entertaining film that rewards multiple viewings.
Darlene Sweet’s storyline provides the film’s emotional heartbeat. As the only character without a violent agenda, she is the audience’s surrogate. Her repeated performances of "This Old Heart of Mine" (The Isley Brothers) are not diegetic filler; they are acts of survival. Singing is the one pure, uncorrupted action she can take in a building designed for voyeurism. When she sings into the motel’s vintage microphone, the sound is piped through the entire building. For a few minutes, the thieves, the ex-priest, and the kidnapper all pause and listen. Goddard suggests that art—raw, human expression—is the only thing that can momentarily puncture the haze of paranoia and violence. Bad Times at the El Royale -2018- -BluRay- -720...
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Four strangers (a priest, a soul singer, a vacuum cleaner salesman, and a hippie) check into the El Royale—a hotel straddling the California/Nevada border, each room hiding a surveillance system. By nightfall, secrets, violence, and a cult leader arrive.
A priest struggling with early-onset dementia and a hidden criminal past.