Hotel Leikeu

This was a super okay movie, but it leaned towards the "meh" side more than the "good" side. The whole premise of the film is very formulaic and has been done plenty of times before in plenty of different movies. But the difference with this movie in comparison to all the other "unwilling-sibling/guardian/parent-takes-care-of-child-and-has-evil-encounter-and-then-becomes-willing-at-the-end" films, this one just didn't have any character development, not great acting, and not an original enough story to be engaging at all. It built suspense quite well and there were some nice jump scares in it, but beyond some good setup, decent acting, and legitimate scares every now and then, this one just isn't special.

I massively disagree with the negative reviews! Although not a horror like american movies, its a much rarer type, the creepy silent hallway and dripping cellar type of nightmares, it's well made and acted -you get a slow but steady feeling of dread (more than gore or fear) , there's family drama, madness, suicide, ghosts, but also blood, murder, a empty hotel, obligatory asian horror movie kid, but less annoying here thankfully- lighting and filming is very nice, but in a David Lynch way. Not a horror with demons and monsters and all that fun but a slow paced, very creepy sinister atmospheric movie- if that sounds interesting - give it a chance.

The script is a ball of confusion and the horror element takes a back seat to way too much family drama. The struggle/fight sequences are unconvincing.

How do films like this get financed? Incredibly dull all around.

I found this film while looking for Korean horror films.

I considered giving it a go after reading the synopsis and glancing at the movie poster, but I was mistaken. What an awful film.

There are strange events. Dark, gloomy hotel maintained by the owner with only one employee. Staff members engage in bizarre talk and frequently drinking. The characters go to a basement around three or four times even though no one should be there.

But what is the major narrative? I didn't understand any of it. Why did the friend of her mother do this? Does a spirit truly exist? What actually happened to her mother? Anyway.

The movie didn't appeal to me.

I wouldn't suggest seeing this movie repeatedly.

The movie has some paranormal scenes randomly thrown in there just so it can call itself a horror movie. The few paranormal scenes it has relied heavily on jump scares while abusing the horrible audio balancing. The last 30 minutes of the movie completely throws away the idea of it being a paranormal movie and renders all the previous paranormal scenes meaningless. It's like the writers couldn't decide what they want the plot of the movie to be.

The audio is really quiet throughout the movie making you want to turn up the volume to just to hear the characters talk, but suddenly has insanely high volume for the jump scare scenes.