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- 408 votes. The Shining. While Psycho often takes the cake as the best horror hotel movie ever created, The Shining is undoubtedly the scariest haunted hotel movie in existence.
- 315 votes. Psycho. The quintessential horror movie set in a hotel, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is a masterpiece the likes of which the horror community rarely sees, and even 60 years later, the film still more than lives up to the hype.
- 274 votes. 1408. Stephen King and haunted hotels go together like peanut butter and jelly, and in 1408, he created one of the most terrifying and bizarre ever seen in film.
- 186 votes. Identity. When ten strangers find themselves isolated in the remote Nevada desert, they have no choice but to stay at The Four Aces motel, little do they know however that they just entered the playground of a deranged murderer looking to have some fun.
68 Metascore. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future. Director Stanley Kubrick Stars Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd. 7.
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- Psycho
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- Daughters of Darkness
- Terror at Red Wolf Inn
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- Eaten Alive
- The Shining
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- Tower of Terror
- Identity
Arguably the first modern horror movie, Psycho (1960) follows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) who is on the run after embezzling $40,000 from her employer. She stops for a night at the Bates Motel, hiding the money inside of a newspaper, and meets the peculiar and reclusive Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). After meeting her fate at the hands of an unseen...
Titled Horror Hotel in the United States, The City of the Dead (1960) centers on a young student, Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson), who is researching witchcraftin a small Massachusetts town following a recommendation by her college professor. When the young woman fails to return home, her fiancé follows in her footsteps in an effort to find her, unc...
Based on the legends attributed to Elizabeth Báthory, Daughters of Darkness is an erotic horror film set in a Belgian hotel during modern times. Báthory, along with her female companion Ilona (Andrea Rau), become fixated on a young newlywed couple staying in the same hotel. The film follows the couple as Báthory attempts to fracture their relations...
Regina McKee (Linda Gillen) is a college student who finds she’s won a trip and a stay at the Red Wolf Inn. When the other guests begin to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night, Regina discovers there’s something much darker happening at the sleepy, quiet inn, and there is something even more shocking about the family hosting what shoul...
Set in 1896 in Victoria, Australia, a Sheriff sets off to a mysterious inn to investigate why the guests check in but never check out. The inn, run by an insane woman and her husband, are taking revenge for the deaths of their children years before. At the time of filming, Inn of the Damned was the most expensive movie to be made in Australia with ...
Directed by the great Tobe Hooper, Eaten Alive (1976) is a super fun exploitation movie that attempted to cash in on the successes of Jaws (1975) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). In the swamps of Texas, a woman checks into the Starlight Hotel, only to be attacked by the hotel’s crazed owner and eaten by the owner’s pet crocodile. That is ju...
Arguably the most famous haunted hotel story of all time, The Shining follows a troubled man, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), as he descends into madness in an isolated (and equally troubled) hotel. Goaded by the malevolent spirits of the hotel, Jack turns on his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd). Stephen King and Stan...
Motel Hell (1980) is an iconic cannibalhorror comedy movie about “meat entrepreneurs” Vincent Smith (Rory Calhoun) and his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) who own a motel, Motel Hello. The siblings set traps for victims on the road near their motel, then they bury their victims up to the neck in their “secret garden,” slit their vocal cords so they can’...
Starring Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst, Tower of Terror (1997) is a made-for-TV supernatural horror movie that follows a journalist (Guttenberg) and his niece (Dunst) who investigate the disappearance of five people from a luxury elevator sixty years prior. When it’s discovered that the five people are roaming the hotel as ghosts, the pair set...
Identity is a fabulous neo-noir thrillerthat takes place almost entirely on the grounds of an isolated motel. Flooding caused by a rainstorm strands ten strangers at the motel, and it seems as if one of them may be a killer. As the night goes on, the group uncovers mysterious connections between themselves in an attempt to uncover the identity of t...
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Apr 20, 2007 · Vacancy: Directed by Nimród Antal. With Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry. Stranded in an isolated motel, a couple become the unsuspecting subjects of a snuff film.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Nimród Antal
- 2007-04-20
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- "Psycho" (1960) The Bates Motel of "Psycho" fame sits off an old, barely-used highway and is run by a dual-personality murderer. What's not to be afraid of?
- "The Shining" (1980) Phantom twin girls, a spectral bartender, and a relapsed alcoholic-gone-mad are what give the Overlook Hotel its spooky reputation.
- "The Witches" (1990) Based on the darkly funny children's novel by Roald Dahl, "The Witches" features Hotel Excelsior, an enormous and objectively spooky cliffside edifice that goes by Headland Hotel in real life.
- "1408" (2007) Nobody would dare stay in room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel — or perhaps any hotel — after seeing the strange phenomena in this 2007 psychological thriller.
Mar 17, 2023 · There’s something extra creepy about a horror movie set at a hotel or Airbnb. From hidden cameras in private spaces to the simple concept of staying in an unfamiliar place, hotels and Airbnbs...
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Feb 27, 2021 · Despite its satirical bent, Kevin Connor's mordant and mortifying horror-comedy Motel Hell is based on the true story of German cannibal Karl Denke. The film follows Vincent (Rory Calhoun), a psychopathic farmer who kidnaps motorists and feeds their remains to his unwitting motel guests.
