

A 15-minute hotel stay that'll make you side-eye every receptionist forever.
A young woman arrives at a hotel escaping from something, but everything about this hideaway intensifies her paranoia.
Direction
Lezama stretches 15 minutes into pure dread.
Production
That hotel location is doing SO much heavy lifting.
Director
Clara Lezama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Montevideo with a skeleton crew; the hotel was operational during filming, meaning real guests occasionally wandered into shots.
Part of a 2010s Uruguayan horror micro-wave where young directors used genre to process post-dictatorship surveillance anxiety. Lezama's hotel as panopticon isn't accidental.