As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.
Direction
Robina Rose's suffocating stillness, every frame whispers 'something's wrong'.
Acting
Pamela Rooke's exhausted eyes carry entire scenes of unspoken dread.
Director
Robina Rose
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robina Rose never directed another feature; this was her sole cinematic statement, funded partly by the BFI's radical 'Production Board' era.
Shot in a real King's Cross hotel during Thatcher's Britain, the film captures pre-gentrification London's crumbling infrastructure as political backdrop.