When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy stars to illuminate the splinters in their family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) has inherited the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the property and be done with it.

Her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there with hopes of returning it to its former glory. They’re joined by their friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel’s seductive embrace and begin doing “bad things”.

Bad Things is written and directed by Stewart Thorndike and stars Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Rad Pereira, Jared Abrahamson, Molly Ringwald and Ariella Josephine. The film premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.