‘Bad Things’ Trailer – Shudder’s New Psychological Thriller Has A ‘Shining’ Influence
Today Shudder dropped a trailer for its upcoming snowbound chiller. Bad Things is a psychological thriller by director Stewart Thorndike that stars Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Rad Pereira, and Molly Ringwald.
In the film, when a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and mysterious grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.
I caught the movie at its Tribeca Film Festival world premiere, where I wrote, “Bad Things is a femme disruption of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining,’ replacing the ornate Overlook with dreary airport hotel liminality.” Check out my full review here.
Bad Things is coming to Shudder and AMC+ on Friday, August 18th, 2023. Will you be checking it out? Let us know on Twitter via @DreadCentral. We’re always around to chat about all things Shudder.
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