(2021) The Last Inn
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
Co-produced and directed by David Kuan that has Laura (Emily Hall) driving along the highway when she hears about an announcement on the radio about an upcoming storm, and she ends up crashing her car onto a single tree. When the passing truck driver did not stop for her she then walks toward a nearby town stopping by at a town called Sass and going into the first inn she sees called "The Lawst Inn" meeting the owners, who happen to be an elderly couple of Mrs Thessy Lawst (Lauren Peterson) and her maintenance husband Mr. Louis Lawst (Scott Talbot). And of course, she is staying at the inn with other guests including a young African American boyfriend and girlfriend couple of Pete (Jamel King) and Nicole (Tristan Cunningham) and a friendly photog student, Steven (Walker Barnes) who coincidentally was heading to the same city as she was called Galveston. Except that as a result of that car accident, Laura has a loss of memory of what happened, nor does she know why she was heading toward Galveston in the first place. And during her stay, she also has to experience some strange going-ons with the tenant that live above her, who is a recovering drug addict, Britney (Zarema Akmalove) and her son, Charlie (Louis Limantour) who often plays with another child who also lives in the inn, Emily (Sofia Solareva). And at this point she has to stay there until the roads are cleared, and as each day continues she learns more about herself as well as the history of the inn itself and the small town of Sass itself.
SPOILERS
Not much of a spoil, but as it turns out, and as I had suspected, Laura was kind of dead all along, more like unconscious as the movie counted the days at least until the seventh day that does not remember, except that she does. And as she makes attempts to escape the inn she not only stumbles onto the graves of Mr and Mrs. Lawst but also stumbles onto the bodies of the two young couple Nicole and Pete. The name Adele is the doll's name that belonged to the Lawst's young daughter Emily, and was killed in a cult, therefore she as well as the others were never alive in the first place. The more Laura regained her memory, the more she wakes up from her coma. And it was at this point, that she never drove alone by herself like she claimed she had done, but was driving with her boyfriend, Steven together to go visit his parents who live in Galveston, which viewers never got to see what they ever looked like. And that it was a rock slide or rock boulder that killed Steven when he sacrificed his life to save hers by being on top of her when the boulder came down and landed on top of the vehicle.
A few things here, if a small town actually existed, how come both Laura as well as Nicole and her boyfriend Pete ever went to look around this town called Sass, if it ever existed! By the time Laura wakes up, where are her parents, or Steve's parents for that matter. We never even got to see a single police officer to jot down what she thought what happened. The movie tends to ignore proper protocol or ignores actual moments if something like this did in fact happened, making this film to be inconsistent.