Too much room at the inn: Drew Goddard's Bad Times at the El Royale

Chris Hemsworth plays a 1960s Mansonesque cult leader

Goddard is allowed to indulge himself with characters’ back stories, Rashomon-style shifts in points of view and a mysterious prologue that fires the gun on the whole shebang

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