Review: Goddard's 'Bad Times at the El Royale' is Nothin' But a Good Time

American producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker Drew Goddard began his career as a writer on the hit television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, and Lost. He made his foray into film by writing the 2008 found-footage creature feature, Cloverfield. It wasn’t until his directorial debut with 2012’s The Cabin in the Woods, however, that Goddard’s talent for creating strong characters and deconstructing genre conventions fully manifested. Now, after most recently producing Netflix’s Daredevil series and writing the screenplay for Ridley Scott’s 2015 space film, The Martian, for which he earned Oscar and WGA nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Goddard is back in the director’s chair for Bad Times at the El Royale, a spirited, subversive thriller steeped in ’60s nostalgia (and paranoia) with an incredible cast and a killer soundtrack. ›››

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