Hotel Dunsmuir

2022

Drama / Horror / Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 408 408

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Director

Michael Zaiko Hall Photo
Michael Zaiko Hall

Top cast

Jasmin Jandreau Photo
Jasmin Jandreau as Billie
Billy Owens Photo
Billy Owens as Hotel Clerk
Rod Meyers Photo
Rod Meyers as Jefferson
Jim Powell Photo
Jim Powell as Corky
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962.83 MB
1280*526
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles pt  es  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 6
1.93 GB
1920*788
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles pt  es  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by steve-s-2001 8 / 10

Excellent Slow Burn Flick!

I suspect "Hotel Dunsmuir" will divide audiences pretty harshly, but I really liked it. Jen Jandreau plays Billie, a young women who is dealing with a seriously abusive husband. After a particularly unpleasant event, she finally gets up the courage to leave him and go stay with her grandmother.During her travels she stays a night in Dunsmuir, California at a hotel named the "Hotel Dunsmuir." In an unfortunate coincidence, she runs into a friend of her husband and makes up an awkward excuse as to why she's alone. But during the night, weird, possibly supernatural events start to happen, and she decides to get away as quickly as she can. She also meets a fellow abuse survivor and agrees to take her along on the drive...As I said, this movie is going to divide viewers. I'm calling it a "slow burn" but that doesn't really communicate how much of a slow burn it is. Part of what makes the movie work so well is Jet Jandreau, who is a revelation here -- she is enormously appealing in the role and gives the character enough emotional weight that we are really, actively rooting for her. That makes the scares and dangers more effective when they show up (and they do show up). And while there are a lot of times where it appears not much is happening, we know her rat of a husband is looking for her and there are sounds in the background that make the sequences really suspenseful.It's not perfect, of course. Billie is a beautiful, smart, sweet, and pious woman. There's no indication of why she would abandon her life to go live in the sticks with this hideously abusive redneck. Some of the story resolution is probably going to be pretty obvious to viewers. And we have the old "important stuff happens in the poor light so we can't actually see what happened" issue that plagues so many low budget films.But overall, it hit all the notes for me. As I said, serious slow burn territory so if that turns you off, this might not be the flick for you. But gets a pretty strong recommendation from me.
Reviewed by saramariespears 2 / 10

It was interesting but...

Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 4 / 10

Nah...

Without ever having heard about this 2022 movie titled "Hotel Dunsmuir", from writer and director Michael Zaiko Hall, as I stumbled upon it here in 2026, I opted to watch it and give it a fair chance. Though I have to say that the 3.7 rating the movie had landed here on IMDb was a bit of a deterrent.The movie's cover was actually interesting enough to make am stop and take notice. But of course, since it also was a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I would check it out.Actually the narrative in the movie was okay, up to just shortly before hitting the 60 minute marker, where the movie sort of took a turn for the more ridiculous. If the movie had continued on with the abusive boyfriend theme, it would have made more sense. But the sudden turn to introduce ghosts into the narrative just felt odd and forced, especially since the movie didn't really have anything supernatural to it up to that point.Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with Jet Jandreau. The acting performances in "Hotel Dunsmuir" were good.In all honesty, then this movie was not particularly great. Sure, it had some moments, but ultimately it was not a great movie. Definitely not a movie that I will return to watch a second time.My rating of writer and director Michael Zaiko Hall's 2022 movie "Hotel Dunsmuir" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.
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