Review of 'Bad Times at the El Royale'

On the surface a much more conventional crime/mystery/thriller movie, but actually really interesting and multi-layered. I can't stop thinking about this...I'm reading reviews and analysis of the symbolism and other elements in the film. Five strangers check in to a motel on the California-Nevada border in the late 1960s, and we get their backstories as well as a complex plot in which they all become differently entangled.

Lots of references to 1960s cults, politics and fabulous music...BTW, I noticed that in The Rest of Us the daughter is reading 'Helter Skelter', and in this film there's a Manson-like cult. Must just be a coincidence, or a reflection of how deep that runs in the American psyche.

Lots of violence, but it's never comic-book or enjoyable. Hard to say more without spoilers, so really just get this one and watch it.

We watched in on All4 but it's gone from that now, I think