Return to Horror Hotel(2019)
2019 · Ricky Hess & Brandon Thaxton · 83 min
Return to Horror Hotel is an anthology feature with 4 segments. One is about giant a bedbugs, one is about a magical charm that turns girls beautiful, one is about a WWII sailor who hasn't aged and one is about a terrorizing severed hand.
Horror · Science Fiction · Comedy
6.5295 votes
TMDB score
1/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is Return to Horror Hotel?
Return to Horror Hotel is a low-budget anthology that jumps between goofy, campy horror ideas rather than building one sustained scare. Each segment plays like a quick, silly throwback to old creature-feature and B-movie horror, mixing weird creatures, cursed objects, and strange transformations with a wink rather than real dread. It's more amusingly weird than scary, aimed at fans of cheesy retro horror who want a fun, low-stakes watch rather than anything unsettling. Don't expect it to stick with you after the credits roll.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Return to Horror Hotel rates psychological 2/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 1/5.
- Psychological: 2 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 1 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 15 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A low-budget anthology that bounces between goofy calm stretches and short bursts of campy scares, without ever building to one big sustained peak.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2.
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