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    <em>Bad Times at the El Royale </em>Is an Inventive and Indulgent Thriller

    The new film from the director of <em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> boasts an impressive ensemble and is fascinating to watch, despite its many excesses.
    by David Sims Oct 11, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: 20th Century Fox

    is set in 1969. That’s the year that flashes up on the screen early on, but this detail would’ve been easy to glean regardless. Drew Goddard’s new film has a lot in common with his 2012 directorial debut, . It’s centered on an ensemble coming together in a strange, vaguely magical location, where nobody is quite who they seem and story conventions get bent and refracted in surprising ways. But where existed to subvert horror tropes, is a farewell ballad

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