After an accident disrupts their trip, a couple finds themselves stranded at a strange hotel where they notice the strange behavior of the guests staying there are caught in a time-loop brought about by a demonic curse on the building requiring one of them to be sacrificed and must try to get away alive.
This one wasn't all that great and had some big issues with it. The main drawback on display is the generally unappealing and highly dragging pace that makes for a truly unengaging feature to get into. This takes forever to get going as hardly anything that attempts to bring about a sense of comfort to the heroes makes them likable, with a lame trip to an antique store that goes nowhere to taking forever to realize the car troubles mean they're stranded in the countryside at the hotel and is helped along in no small part by the utterly asinine storyline of the couple that has no business being together with her career as a social media influencer and his disdain for the whole experience. That means constant digs at her for doing her job that doesn't come off as friendly couple banter and is all that they do together which makes their connection all the more confusing beyond taking up time to get to the point of everything. That comes into even greater focus, though, when it transpires that the whole thing makes no sense in the slightest. The whole idea of the demon haunting the building and instilling the series of time-loops to take place with all the guests who are stuck constantly reenacting their final moments before dying would've been fine had it brought these elements together in a matter that comes off cohesively. Instead, the whole thing is chaotic and random with no entry point into how it all comes together, what each of the various guests is doing there, or what the manager's purpose in being there actually is since his role seems to be far more horrified at the thought rather than being involved and steering everything along. That makes for an absolutely confusing time throughout here with absolutely nothing coming together to make sense, and when combined with a plainly-obvious series of low-budget limitations that creep up brings this one down significantly. There really isn't that much to like here, and it's pretty much reserved for several small areas that don't mean all that much in the grand scheme of things. The biggest plus here is the overall atmosphere of the hotel which makes the scenes here quite suspenseful in theory with the various maladies and situations that arise. From seeing specters of dead children, patrons walking around with mortal wounds, and others flat-out killing themselves in front of him, there's a creepiness that comes through here aided by the lack of explanation for everything. That also makes several of the ghostly death interactions and confrontations somewhat suspenseful as everything that takes place here has the potential to be creepy in some context but doesn't really count in this context as the idea of what's going on is mostly undone by the vast majority of flaws on display.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
