Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante (Blind Waters, Sharknado), who wrote it with William C. Martell, Dante's Hotel is the Dontene Hotel and their annual New Year's Eve party. This year, Goldie Stanton (AnnaLynne McCord, Titanic 666) has been hired to run the event. As she gets her life together and continues her sobriety, she wonders if she can handle working this demanding event for the exacting Mr. Emitt (Ted Raimi). Meanwhile, Detective Stone (Moon Bloodgod, Terminator Salvation) is obsessed with the hotel and a man named Daniel Brayer (Judd Nelson), who has been in the hotel for two massacres, one when he was 12 and his parents were killed and another when he was 24. However, no bodies have ever been found. And Stone's superior Captain Pasado (Emilio Rivera) warns her to not make the same mistakes his father did and throw his life away investigating this case.
Dante's Hotel has some really interesting ideas that go beyond the typical horror film. Now, it's Halloween but this is a fresh New Year's Eve movie to add later in the year. I loved the idea that the hotel is just one of many cursed buildings where Father Time (Kevin Porter) kills his 12 victims every year, as well as Bryaer being the only resident of the cursed 12th floor in room 1224. Father Time also has a unique look and the building itself conspires to kill people, even pulling them into walls and ripping them to pieces.
What helps this movie and places it above the everyday Tubi original is the talent in the film, the fact that it's not afraid to get super weird -- an elevator that takes you to a portal to Hell is a strange place to make small talk -- and it has production values that feel way higher than most Asylum films. There's also a bit of Eurohorror to the villain and the endless clocks and gears that appear everywhere.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the video game of the same name.
Dante's Hotel has some really interesting ideas that go beyond the typical horror film. Now, it's Halloween but this is a fresh New Year's Eve movie to add later in the year. I loved the idea that the hotel is just one of many cursed buildings where Father Time (Kevin Porter) kills his 12 victims every year, as well as Bryaer being the only resident of the cursed 12th floor in room 1224. Father Time also has a unique look and the building itself conspires to kill people, even pulling them into walls and ripping them to pieces.
What helps this movie and places it above the everyday Tubi original is the talent in the film, the fact that it's not afraid to get super weird -- an elevator that takes you to a portal to Hell is a strange place to make small talk -- and it has production values that feel way higher than most Asylum films. There's also a bit of Eurohorror to the villain and the endless clocks and gears that appear everywhere.
By the way, this has nothing to do with the video game of the same name.