Severely indebted Min-cheol (Lee Ju-seung) and Young-gyu (Han Min) manage a remote, dingy motel for violent loan shark Deuk-chan (Hyun Bong-sik), while reluctantly making hidden-camera videos of its guests’ private activities for him to sell on. 

Cleverly blending and thoroughly updating elements from other hotel horrors – chiefly Psycho (1960), a distant mother, showers, voyeurism) and The Shining (1980), an axe-wielding madman) – writer/director Yeon Je-gwang’s tense, taut thriller and of horror viewership, in a cynical, metacinematic peek at unspeakable exploitation.

This is lean, mean genre filmmaking, with a difficult contemporary subtext.

Contains disturbing scenes and violence