Bad Times at the El Royale

About Bad Times at the El Royale

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past.

Bad Times at the El Royale is a 2018 crime mystery film directed by Drew Goddard. Its themes are complex, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), vietnam war, and motel.

Jeff Bridges takes the lead as Father Daniel Flynn, Cynthia Erivo as Darlene Sweet, Lewis Pullman as Miles Miller, and Dakota Johnson as Emily Summerspring. It runs 141 minutes and was released in October 2018.

The screenplay is by Drew Goddard. It comes from 20th Century Fox, Goddard Textiles, and TSG Entertainment.

Forrest Gump, Shutter Island, and No Country for Old Men make useful companions to Bad Times at the El Royale, all filed under 1960s and hippie. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 4,001 votes and it carries a R rating.