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Hotel California
Genre: Mystery/Horror
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Meirad Tako
Inspired by the song by the Eagles
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Mila Kunis, Tom Wilkinson

Plot: The film is welcomed by 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd while showing a footage of a red Ford Mustang boss 302 driving along the road in Mojave Desert in the afternoon and showing a man named James Miller (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) he is wearing black suit with white shirt inside, black pants following the black upper and a black pair of shoes and a sun glasses. He is smoking and relaxing while driving. The song ended when the day start turning to evening, he is so tired when he found a big hotel in the middle of the desert. He doesn't mind it and stop by to stay.

He parks his car and get into the hotel with his baggage, when he opens the door he was welcomed by a song from the performer that night, they play 'Hotel California' by eagles. And then he was welcomed by a beautiful administration staff with Mary S. (Mila Kunis) Written on the right side of her uniform, She serve him, he got a room and she shows the way. On the way to the room he can't stop checking on her and she realize than she smiles seductively.

After they arrive, she seductively tell him that there is going to be a big party to celebrate the Hotel's anniversary, she touch his hand slowly and ask him to go there together and he just yes-ing to her request. He get in to his room, he takes shower and dress up for the party with accompany of Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' after an hour the door was knocked and he opens the door and Mary is the one who knocks the door, she wear 70s styled clothes

They walk together, downstairs and to the backyard of the hotel where a big party was held, he sit on the bar in the backyard. He asks for Wine excitedly and the bartender (Meirad Tako) said "we haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty-nine" and then hand him the wine.

The party was a blast with songs like "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John and "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin. While partying he he came across a guy, a very pale guy that sit on the wheelchair, the Old Man (Tom Wilkinson). He doesn't really care thou he thinks that he is just another guest in the hotel and then he start to hit Mary and the night end with some dance on the bed. Everything is silence and dark, the atmosphere became heavier and just tick from the water that fall from the tab.

James woke up in the bed naked, he is sweating heavily, he looks to his side and see Mary but half of her body is just a rotten meat. James screams and jump out of the bed waking up Mary. She wakes up and smiles then she stand nakedly, half of her body from head to feet are rotten meat and disgusting. She welcomes him to her world, and welcome him to Hotel California and she snaps her finger and James fall unconscious.

He wakes up on the dinner table, he cannot move, then he sees Mary pushing the old man that he saw on the party. It is just three of them, then Mary Serves him with a rotten meat that full of worm and fungus, she force him to eat it and he eats it. After that Mary stabs the old man over and over until he is covered with blood and then she sits again. The old man groan in pain and then slowly and painfully he transforms to something of a beast, he chock Mary and slams her to the wall and splatter her body. When that happens, James gains control of his body again and he runs outside, it is a dark big maze, it is so cold and hot at the same time, the beast is chasing behind him.

He get inside a steel room and the beast is banging the steel door, James fall on his knees and crying. He is hopeless, he will die. Then he sees a pole stick and grabs it to fight and run out side from the other door he run as fast as he can and left the beast. His run was stop when the he sees the way is cut to make kind of cliff and the way continues at the other side of the room. He looks back and see the beast is moving closer to him, he takes a deep breath take a few step back and do some kind of jump vault to the other side. The beast cannot stop his run and fall while James succeed to jump, he keeps running and arrive to the lobby, it is bright and crowded, he walks slowly while other people are looking at him. When he grabs the door handle, he was stop by a staff and say, 'You can check out anytime you want but you cannot leave'