The template of
The Resort is simple: Four friends escape to Hawaii for a birthday vacation, they explore an abandoned hotel resort that the birthday girl believes to be haunted, and unfortunately for them, it actually is. The ghost-loving gal is Lex (Haase), a horror author obsessed with haunts and, as the opening informs us, the sole survivor of the deadly vacation.
The spooky setup of
The Resort is a mess. The film is told from Lex’s perspective from a hospital bed, and every flashback is prompted by a question from a detective (Sheridan). The flashback that lays out the groundwork is the actual night of Lex’s birthday, and over cake her friends inform her that they managed to find someone to personally take them to the haunted resort that she plans to write about for her next book. For a group of friends who managed to do the impossible, they knew little to nothing about the actually haunted resort itself, but a quick cut to an old video vaguely spells out everything: It