Rotten Tomatoes

Movies / TV

    Celebrity

      No Results Found

       View All       Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

      Hotel

      2004 1h 16m Drama Horror TRAILER for Hotel: Trailer 1 List Hotel: Trailer 1 Hotel: Trailer 1 1:37 View more videos
      Reviews 32% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Newly restored in 4k and available for the first time in North America, Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner radically upends genre tropes and preempts the resurgence of folk horror with her second and most formally audacious feature, HOTEL. The deceptively simple premise of a young woman who takes on a job as a night porter at a remote Austrian hotel and encounters unexplained phenomena amounts to a grand treatise on the inhibiting potential of imagination, the fine line between banality and terror and the looming specter of fate. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered May 21 Buy Now

      Where to Watch

      Hotel

      Fandango at Home Prime Video

      Rent Hotel on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video.

      Critics Reviews

      View All (3) Critics Reviews
      Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Fangoria A haunting film about labor, obedience, the invisible presence of passive-aggressiveness as a form of violence, and that odd, intangible spirit of being aware that other people long gone once worked where you now work Oct 12, 2021 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …Hausner creates an above-average exercise in suspense with Hotel, which plays on our fears of communal spaces and, while remaining ambiguous, never steps into the realm of special effects, gore or rubber monsters… Rated: 3/5 Jul 22, 2023 Full Review Tomas Trussow The Lonely Film Critic Hotel succeeds in bringing a distinctive sense of menace behind every shadow and closed door, burrowing into the deepest realms of our subconscious and making us think twice about our next hotel booking, lest it be our last. Rated: 3.5/5 May 13, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Audience Reviews

      View All (6) audience reviews
      Audience Member A young girl becomes the new receptionist of a hotel and finds out that the old one, whom she resembles, disappeared mysteriously. Creepy but joyless and unfulfilled. A lot of atmosphere which frustratingly remains unused. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member If you're expecting a horror movie in the Hollywood sense of the word, you will be disappointed. This very beautifully shot and acted movie is rather a mystery - even in the sense that at the end of the movie you still don't know what really happened. When Irene starts working at a hotel in the Austrian Alps, she finds out that her predecessor Eva didn't just leave, but disappeared. Her glasses are still in a drawer in her former room. One of the possible explanations is occult: Eva has fallen victim to the 'witch of the woods' and Irene is bound to be her next victim. Her co-workers turn hostile on Irene when she starts asking questions about the disappearance of Eva, who's glasses she is - seemingly to provoke - wearing a part of the movie. Considering the hostility of the co-workers the other option is that there is a conspiracy going on and they made Eva disappear - and now they all try to hide the truth from Irene. Still, one can not be sure, because the clues are too few to solve the mystery completely. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member (***): Thumbs Up This is an atmospheric and moody horror/thriller. A little slow but I enjoyed it even if I think many (and I truly think many) viewers will not like it because it is an extremely ambiguous film throughout, especially the ending. But, I like when films make me think afterward. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member The fiilm does successfully create a truly creppy and dark atmosphere. However, I must admit, even I had pressed the fast-forward button to finish half of the movie, I still found it extremely slow-paced and boring. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Möchtegern-Gruselfilm in dem einfach nix passiert. Langweilig und unnötig... Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member The "script girl" on the original funny games and allegedly Haneke protege, directs a rather atmospheric but disappointing film. I wasn't expecting that Hausner would employ the sexist cliché found in many horror films [heroine has to be a dimwit so she can make outrageously dangerous decisions without the slightest doubt]. The film is just a collection of spooky sequences and its attempts at density and minimalism are rarely successful. The original cut explained the mystery away but after Cannes, Hausner recut the film to provide a poor felly's "Picnic at Hanging Rock" mixed with a [barely] "Shining." Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

      Cast & Crew

      Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew

      Videos

      View All videos

      Hotel

      Hotel: Trailer 1 Hotel: Trailer 1 1:37 View more videos

      Photos

      View All Hotel photos

      Hotel

      Hotel (2004) View more photos

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Newly restored in 4k and available for the first time in North America, Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner radically upends genre tropes and preempts the resurgence of folk horror with her second and most formally audacious feature, HOTEL. The deceptively simple premise of a young woman who takes on a job as a night porter at a remote Austrian hotel and encounters unexplained phenomena amounts to a grand treatise on the inhibiting potential of imagination, the fine line between banality and terror and the looming specter of fate.
      Director
      Jessica Hausner
      Screenwriter
      Jessica Hausner
      Distributor
      Film Movement
      Genre
      Drama, Horror
      Original Language
      German
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 22, 2024
      Runtime
      1h 16m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Digital
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)
      Most Popular at Home Now