Joshua Hunter continues the Reel Spooky Series with The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's slow-burn thriller reuniting her with The Assistant star Julia Garner. Garner and Jessica Henwick play Hanna and Liv, two American backpackers who run out of money in Australia and take a live-in bar job at a remote Outback mining town pub — only to find themselves trapped in an increasingly menacing situation surrounded by a bar full of unruly, entitled locals. There's no supernatural threat here, no masked killer — just the slow, creeping dread of being outnumbered and unheard.
Joshua breaks down how Green builds that tension without cheap jump scares, digs into Garner and Henwick's tense dynamic, and discusses how this movie is unfortunately timely no matter when in history you look.
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