Time to take a trip with some good friends to an empty hotel that may or may not be haunted. What could possibly go wrong?
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist.In the opening moments of writer-director Stewart Thorndike's Bad Things, now getting a release on Shudder after its festival run, we see a distant figure gradually roaming closer to the camera while holding a chainsaw.
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. The premise is simple as we accompany Ruthie to a relatively small snowbound hotel she has inherited and is now supposedly intending to sell.
There is a halting nature to this as if the film is itself uncertain about what it wants. Where some of the most masterful horror visions this year have made the most of a simple setting and cut right to the bone by creating something we’ve never quite seen before, there is an initial lack of direction to Bad Things that leaves us searching for something more in many of the narrowly framed scenes.
'Bad Things' Benefits From a Bloody Good Ending Some of this includes an all-timer of an appearance by Molly Ringwald that, while brief, is best left opaque as it creates key turning points in the film. Everything from her first proper scene with Rankin all the way to the end is where Bad Things breaks through any of the hangups it accumulated. This culminates in a few final stellar scenes beginning in a parking lot that washes away any missteps with blood.
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