THE ROYAL HOTEL

2023
1 HR, 31 min
NOV 3 → NOV 9

Details

Released October 6, 2023

Australia, United Kingdom

1 hour, 31 minutes

Neon

None

Starring

Julia Garner
Jessica Henwick
Herbert Nordrum
Hugo Weaving

Director

Kitty Green

Film Information

Americans Hanna and Liv (Jessica Henwick, Julia Garner) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Film Stills

Full Cast

Julia Garner

Jessica Henwick

Herbert Nordrum

Hugo Weaving

Additional Credits

Kitty Green Director

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Reviews

“Green, filming for the first time in her native Australia, displays such a sure hand with the movie’s tone that even her brief slips into genre cliché inflict minimal damage.”

Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

“You will walk out of the pitch-black of the theatre startled by the brightness outside, unsettled that Green has shone a harsh light on a dark truth always known to be true.”

Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

“The Royal Hotel is a horror movie but don’t expect any jump-cuts, scary masks or serial killers. It’s more like the horror that dawns on a frog when it realizes it is being boiled alive.”

Mark Kennedy

Associated Press