| Written and Directed by Taylor Chien
I’m sure I’m very wrong but it feels like there are about a dozen low budget horror movies with the title ‘The Resort’ and this one 2021 is the latest one. In it we see a group of four friends head to Hawaii to investigate reports of a haunted abandoned hotel and the story of the Half-Faced Girl.
To be fair
The Resort doesn’t come across as a particularly low budget affair. It’s shot decently enough and the production values look better than most (that aren’t super big budget). The location is key to a lot of this but with that, this abandoned hotel is part of both good points in the movie and bad ones. It’s good, well better than good, because it’s this hugely expensive and amazing looking abandoned hotel, with nature beginning to grow around it. It’s such a great place to ave for a horror movie and there’s so many different ways you could use it and stories you could tell around it. But maybe because of this my expectations were a little too high. What it feels like we have here is film-makers that have discovered this location but aren’t really sure what to do with it. And what we get is a mostly generic horror movie that steals bits from