A tangled nest of mysteries and rumors in its own right, the Cal Neva was clearly the inspiration for the retro-kitsch hotel where “ Bad Times at the El Royale” goes down, and though none of the film’s five (give or take) guests ever finds time to visit the pool - they’re too busy slapping, shooting, and spying on one another for that - it’s pretty fair to say they’re all in over their heads. With: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Jon HammĪ line runs right through the middle of Lake Tahoe’s Cal Neva Resort & Casino, splitting the swimming pool between two states: Step into the shallow end on the California side, and the water gets progressively deeper as you cross over into Nevada. Writer-director Drew Goddard follows up ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ with an inverse experiment, an elaborate thriller where the location is everything, and the twists disappoint.
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