#The Royal Hotel

[mikaeled]

Jessica Henwick in The Royal Hotel (2023) dir. Kitty Green

[violaobanion]

JAMES FRECHEVILLE as TEETH in THE ROYAL HOTEL (2023), dir. Kitty Green

[nataliliv]

The Royal Hotel, Dubai

[hadesoftheladies]

FEMALE MOVIE/TV RECS (PART 5 / HORROR & CRIME DRAMA)

got inspired from a recommendation post so decided to make a list of movies and shows with female-centric stories/female protagonists. since i can't post all of the genres in one post, i'll split it into multiple posts and y'all can save or add to the list as you wish. (disclaimer: i have watched most of these, but i only know about the existence of others. not every movie/show on these lists will be my recommendation. my recommendations will be beneath the list with reasons. also some of these are way better than others in terms of storytelling/performance--which is why i'll list my faves separately):

Common Themes:

-Dangerous girls (they ain't innocent)/ girlhood as violent

-Stressed out and melancholic female detectives and authors (lots of drinking/smoking)

-Mothers who've seen too fucking much to play games/I'm a good mother until it doesn't let up

-Women handling shit/getting shit done

-Mothers who didn't want to be mothers but here we fucking are so might as well handle shit

-Evil women who are also unfortunately hot

-Female sociopaths (not always negatively portrayed)

HAVEN'T WATCHED

The Royal Hotel

The Silent Twins

The Kitchen

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Sharp Objects

Killing Eve

Abigail

Heavenly Creatures

A Quiet Place Part 2

Panic Room

Alice, Darling

Blood Red Sky

Rust Creek

The Marsh King's Daughter

Pearl

Longlegs

GOOD STUFF (NEVER WATCHING AGAIN THOUGH!)

Bad Sisters (8/10) (sisters plan to kill their sister's abusive husband)

Yellowjackets (9/10) (love as cannibalism)

Candy (7.5/10) (she's just a killer lol)

Cruella (6.5/10)(help my mom is a narcissist and it's hereditary)

Jennifer's Body (7/10) (boys aren't people lmao)

Bird Box (8/10)

Under the Bridge (8/10)

PERSONAL NOTES

I watched Tragedy Girls years ago, and I remember being grossed out and having a lot of fun as well. If you like Jennifer's Body, you'll probably like Tragedy Girls, too. And if you like Tragedy Girls, you may also enjoy Thoroughbreds. All three have a twisted sense of girlpower.

The Call isn't scary so much as its nerve-wracking and upsetting. It's not gory (although there is violence), but it deals with heavy subject matter. I can, however, promise a satisfying ending. Even though I doubt it would put you at ease.

Horror is my least favourite genre so bear that in mind. I just hate jump scares (because I hate being startled) and I don't like gore though there are times where it doesn't bother me so much. So this is definitely not an exhaustive list on horror recs. Crime is as close as I usually get to such dark stuff so I put the dark crimes, psychological thrillers and horrors together. I don't even want to talk about these that much because I'm nauseous already.

Watch at your own risk.

[artfilmfan]

The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green, 2023)

[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Julia Garner

[flipjack]

Fresh chop

[evita-shelby]

The First Date

or I created the Frecheville-verse and now Eva's in The Royal Hotel

Eva x Teeth(James Frecheville, the Royal Hotel)

I am deliberately ignoring the movie for this, all the lore is my own invention.

Eva Smith is my oc, but most of y'all already know that

Cw: mentions of sexism, sexual harrasment, illegal gun owning, sex, drinking? I think that's all

for @violaobanion

The best decision Eva has made this year --by far-- has been buying a handgun.

In her desperation to escape the fallout of her disastrous affair with a Sicilian Mafioso in New York and a married Romani gangster in England, Eva had gone and asked for a job in the ass crack of nowhere instead of leaving Australia.

The Royal Hotel is as ironic in its name as you can imagine.

And sure, most of the men here are pigs and she’s stuck here with shit pay and no way out of here, but it gives her the one thing she’s wanted all her life.

Anonymity.

She is just Eva, the hot foreign girl no one has a real chance at. She is a mystery they don’t care to solve as long as they can leer at her, and they won’t try a thing after she threatened Dolly with her gun.

Granted no one knows the gun is illegally owned save for her and Billy and Carol, so it works like a charm.

But the witch’s come to know she needs more than a gun to keep these assholes at bay, especially now that the English Girls have made enough cash to get the fuck out of here.

Teeth with his clumsy ways ---and who has never needed her to casually threaten him to stop--- and reputation for scrapping with the others over anything, is the perfect candidate. Sure, Matty was quite the looker with aspirations and that, but Teeth had this strange obsessiveness that would put a man in the hospital for looking at her the wrong way.

Eva needs that just as badly as she needs the crumbling old house his granny left him as her new address.

“Do you reckon...?” the burly ginger-bearded man begins thinking he’ll be rejected only for Eva to tease him over his awkwardness.

“Out with it, Teeth, or I’ll drink your beer myself.” She likes teasing him, he’s always here and relatively good company.

The locals make him the butt of their jokes here, he is not a smooth talker and there is that sort of pity he gets from Billy who always gives him his first beer of the night for free. The English Girls barely give him the time of day, but Eva’s developed a bit of a soft spot for him.

The Mexican woman has been teasing him for a while, flirted openly, showing obvious favoritism towards him to push him into finally making a move. Everyone else had gotten the memo except him.

Glenda had been sufficiently occupied with the task of getting him to finally say the damn words, she’s no longer asking Eva to take a page from her coworkers and roommates to get better tips. A blessed reprieve the younger woman will always be thankful for.

“Um,” he begins again feeling a bit more confident, especially after Glenda eggs him on. “Do you reckon I could, like, take ya out somewhere sometime, like a date and that?”

“About time you asked me, big guy.” The dark-haired woman gave him his beer with a wink, and you’d think she’d given him the winning numbers of the lotto by the looks of it.

The date wasn’t as bad as she thought, while unoriginal and a way to get into bed with each other, it went better than expected.

Teeth cleaned up very well, opened the door and pulled out her chair when they went out for dinner in the neighboring town. Even cleaned his truck for the special occasion.

She’s worn a dress that shows her off well enough without screaming puta, and while the Mexican woman has had to be very obvious about her intentions to climb him like a tree, it had the ending she desperately needed it to have.

A few drinks in and both inhibited enough to barely make it past the front door. Teeth had picked her up like nothing and made all that waiting worth every second of it. He even went down on her and ate her out like a champ.

For a guy reeking of that Nice Guy vibe, he knows how to give a girl a great time.

“You’re mine, Evie. No one else gets to have you but me, ‘cause you’re my property now.” Teeth punctuated his words with a love bite the witch won’t be able to hide. Not that she wants to, as archaic and red flaggy his possessiveness was, it served its purpose.

“Mmm, is that why they call you Teeth? Because you like biting your women?” Eva returned fire and made sure to claim him in like. He may think he’s got the upper hand here, but Eva never doesn’t anything she doesn’t want to do.

The burly man with newfound confidence lies straight to her face about the origin of his nickname. Having met every single of his coworkers, friends, and the other locals at the pub, Eva knows it’s because he had braces when he started working in the mines straight out of school.

Still, it’s been the best night she’s had since she got here and even with his alarm going off at the ass crack of dawn, Eva would absolutely do it again and leaves the sexy lacey panties she’d worn hanging onto the gear shift while he refueled his truck as a clear invitation for a second date.

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2023:

The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green), 2023

[idasessions]

My Top 10 Films of 2023:

1) The Holdovers, dir. Alexander Payne 2) Anatomy of a Fall, dir. Justine Triet 3) Asteroid City, dir. Wes Anderson 4) Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, dir. Kelly Fremon Craig 5) Poor Things, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos 6) BlackBerry, dir. Matt Johnson 7) You Hurt My Feelings, dir. Nicole Holofcener 8) The Royal Hotel, dir. Kitty Green 9) Air, dir. Ben Affleck 10) Dreamin’ Wild, dir. Bill Pohlad

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #655 - The Royal Hotel

[violaobanion]

"Teeth always gets his first [beer] for free."

THE ROYAL HOTEL (2023) dir. Kitty Green

[moviemosaics]

The Royal Hotel

directed by Kitty Green, 2023

[cappedinamber]

The Royal Hotel (2023)

Directed by Kitty Green

Cinematography by Michael Latham

[artfilmfan]

Julia Garner & Jessica Henwick in "The Royal Hotel" (Kitty Green, 2023)

[thishadoscarbuzz]

Class of 2023

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