Shudder has released a trailer for its upcoming psychological horror thriller Bad Things, which is clearly inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The story follows a group of friends who go on a snowy hotel weekend getaway and it ends up spiraling into a bloody nightmare.
As you’ll see in the trailer, the lead actress Gayle Rankin (Glow) attempts to channel her inner Jack Torrance. The movie comes from writer and director Stewart Thorndike, and the synopsis reads:
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 also stars Hari Nef (Barbie), Annabelle Dexter-Jones (Succession), Rad Pereira (Betty), Jared Abrahamson (Ramy) and Molly Ringwald (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story).
Bad Things is coming to Shudder and AMC+ on Friday, August 18th, 2023.