BAD THINGS, Stewart Thorndike’s Chilling Queer Thriller starring Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Rad Pereira & Molly Ringwald | Coming to Shudder 8/18

Janel Spiegel 08/17/2023 News

 

 

 

 

 

BAD THINGS


A FILM BY 

STEWART THORNDIKE 

STARRING 

GAYLE RANKIN, HARI NEF,
ANNABELLE DEXTER-JONES, RAD PEREIRA,
JARED ABRAHAMSON AND MOLLY RINGWALD 

Perfectly eerie and driven by feminine rage. Rankin is exceptional.”

– Coleman Spilde, The Daily Beast

“A refreshing twist on slashers. Thorndike’s queer take on 
‘The Shining’ is a great amount of fun…with a killer cast.”

-Samantha Bergeson, Indiewire

“Wonderful and unexpected. Captures the powerhouse that is

Gayle Rankin, the sheer complexity she brings to this character is enthralling.”

-Rebecca Cherry, Film Carnage

 

When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and mysterious grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.

BAD THINGS is coming to SHUDDER and AMC+ on Friday, August 18th, 2023.