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Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

★ 6.8 · 3,848 ratings on TMDB

Seven strangers. Seven secrets. All roads lead here.

Bad Times at the El Royale poster★ 6.8

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

DirectorDrew Goddard
CastCailee Spaeny, Chris Hemsworth, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm
GenresCrime, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

Bad Times at the El Royale keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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