The Royal Hotel (2023)

This refreshing Australian suspense avoids tired outback horror tropes and instead presents a horror of the sort you read about in the news, of international tourists on an adventure ending up working under terrible circumstances in remote parts of Australia, on farms, say, or in this movie's FIFO mining town and specifically  at a pub that everyone - the drunk local men, the two new female staff, the audience - knows needs to be burned to the ground long before an alcohol-fuelled Mick Taylor is let to wreak his inevitable bloody havoc.  

★★★☆☆

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