‘Bad Things’ Trailer: A Group Of Friends Stay At An Abandoned Hotel With A Terrible History In New Horror Film

After watching “The Shining,” it’s clear that nothing good can come from staying in an abandoned hotel during winter. Seriously, ghosts eat that shit up. Alas, that’s what a group of friends does in the new horror-thriller, “Bad Things.”

As seen in the new trailer for the film, “Bad Things” tells the story of friends who spend the weekend at an empty hotel with its own creepy history. As the friends stay in the hotel more, things start to go awry and ghosts begin to appear. And if that wasn’t enough, the relationships between these close friends begin to fracture, leading to more tension and suspense. 

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The thriller stars Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Rad Pereira, and Molly Ringwald. “Bad Things” is directed by Stewart Thorndike. The film premiered earlier this year at Tribeca.

“Bad Things” arrives on Shudder and AMC+ on August 18. You can watch the trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis:

​​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.