The Last Inn

The Last Inn (2021) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a young lady who unexpectedly arrives at an Inn with little memory of where she came from and where she's going. She runs into another couple and a young man also staying at the inn. They decide to play a board game that seems to unlock the spirits within the house and strange things start happening. Can the new friends put the spirits back in their place or will they all die trying?

This movie is directed by David Kuan (Death is Here 3) and stars Emily Hall (Lumina), Walker Barnes (Butter), Tristan Cunningham (Sleeping with Strangers), Jamel King (Unhinged) and Lauren Peterson (Moxie).

This is one of those movies where the twist at the end was likely written first and then the author had to build a story to get to it, because the end was definitely the best part of the movie. The acting and dialogue were average. The makeup and creation of the horror elements were also mediocre to bad, though some of the props were cool. There is a bathroom scene in here that's perfectly executed and very well done, but shortly after there's a flashback montage and background song that's painful.

Overall, with a little more patience with the writing of the screenplay and a bigger budget this could have been a worthwhile addition to the horror genre; unfortunately, it ends up falling short of its potential. I would score this a 3/10 and recommend skipping it.

While watching this, my heart went out to Emily Hall, who plays Laura. She gives a decent performance considering all the things working against her - namely, her appalling dialogue, unfathomable dubbing (from American into American), the stone-dead pacing, derivative storyline and the performances of all of those around her. Oh, and the ballad accompanying the longed-for finale 100 minutes later.

There is a scene towards the end of 'The Last Inn' involving a priest explaining the entire plot (which seems to be cribbed from 'The Others'), which involves some of the worst acting I have ever seen on film. So bad, it's as if everyone is emoting through a mechanical speech-generating device.

It's as though the dialogue and delivery were translated strictly from another language - possibly Chinese, given that the filming took place mainly at Hengdiah film studios. Remember the old Japanese 1970s 'Godzilla' films from Toho studios, and how they were often let down by poor dialogue and dubbing? That's what this reminds me of.

Elsewhere, the cinematography is very good and nicely lit. There is no skimping on the budget either, because some money has clearly been spent on this. That the results are so off-kilter and odd, ensure that it's a challenge to get to the end, where you can at least get some comfort spotting the spelling errors in the closing credits. Hopefully Emily Hall can put this behind her. My score is 3 out of 10.

Wow, this is bad, mega bad, I don't think I've ever seen a film like this before, so that's 1 star at least for the effort.

The problem for the viewer is that it's so awful, you keep trying to work out if they're serious or if it's a parody, along the lines of Police Squad or even Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

The element that makes it confusing is that they have great cameras, so it looks pretty good, everything else though is odd. My sense is that this was a serious attempt at a horror movie, or maybe even a comedy/ horror, but Director & Producer David Kuan, hasn't a single clue how to achieve that.

Every single scene & every word spoken is wrong or off, so to critique this properly would take all day, suffice it to say this should be on Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst, they'd love it!

I didn't make it all the way, but maybe after a few bottles of wine I might try.

Serioys...it's so bad it's a crime not seeing it. Won't say this or that or the other is bad because everything is so really bad. Go-ahead and watch it.

From the start it looks normal however straight away from Laura getting out the car with a head injury she turns round and she's got a plaster on. First were did the plaster come from second you can tell she's sitting behind a green screen in the car. Anyway we carried on watching and it just went from bad to worse. The voice for the little girl is from about a 60 year old woman. All actors are stiff and can't speak properly. It's addictive to watch as the acting is so bad ! Like I think I could video myself around my apartment block and could make it more scary using my phone. If this is free and your into that type of poorly written and acting film then watch it but this shouldn't be allowed to be sold in shops. I'm even tempting taking this back to Asda and demanding my money back. And at the end watch out for when the preist is talking to the man and woman and child because when the camera is looking at the man speaking and then switched to a side angle it's a completely different person.. just waisted and hour and a half of my life which I won't get back watching this terrible film !