Hotel

Hotel (2004)

When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace.

Date of release
2004-12-03
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (60)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Horror, Drama, Mystery
Director
Jessica Hausner

Casting

Interesting facts

Hotel is a 2004 Austrian psychological horror film written and directed by Jessica Hausner and starring Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, and Marlene Streeruwitz. Its plot follows a young woman who takes a job as a receptionist at a rural Alpine hotel, where the employee she replaced disappeared under unclear circumstances. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

The film was shot on location at a hotel in Gösing, Austria in the fall of 2003. The reception desk featured in the film was shot at a hotel in Reichenau an der Rax, with additional photography occurring at the Parkhotel Schönbrunn in Vienna. Hausner was inspired by the Maya Deren film Meshes in the Afternoon when conceiving the dream sequences featured in the film.

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