On first look, it's a run-down hotel in a non-descript small town managed by an Eastern European family (Mia Soteriou, Olegar Fedoro, Ben Shafik, Sabrina Feroldi) like so many others - but there's just something odd about room 508 ...

• Roger (Matthew Leitch) is cheating on his wife (Charlotte Pyke) with Brenda (Siobhan Hewlett), who just happens to work at the same company as he does. But their latest sex date at room 508 is under no good star after he meets a co-worker (Richard Wellings-Thomas) in the lobby, and all through the night just grows more and more paranoid - with unexpected consequences ...
• Stressed out travelling IT expert Pauly (Adam Leese) moves into room 508, but the desolate hotel room with its noisy AC and its dripping fawcets soon gets to him, and what was stress at first soon turns into full-blown delusions - or maybe something worse ...
• Drunk musician Derek (Michael Laurence) rather unexpectedly finds himself in room 508 in bed with cam girl Beverly (Eugenia Caruso) - but before he can really take advantage of the situation, she's gone and Vic (Charles Pike) enters the room, Beverly's pimp or husband or photographer or jilted lover, whichever of his lies you want to believe. And he sure has a screw or three loose, and seems to be highly contagious ...

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Country of Hotels is a borderline surreal sort-of anthology, seamlessly blending a very diverse array of genres from erotic thriller to psycho thriller to ghost story to absurd comedy, all packed into a trio of stories told maybe or maybe not in chronological order, held together not only by theme but also a bridging plot that's no less weird than the segments it holds together. But as diverse as the film may be narratively, a coherent directorial effort that's stylish and slick without being glossy holds the film together, and a cast clearly in on the joke but playing it straight really carries things throughout, making this one very unusual but pretty enjoyable and memorable film.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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