Hotel Splendide (2000)

Directed by

Terence Gross

Genre

horror film, black comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

15

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family runs a grim health resort on a remote island. They feed their guests seaweed and eels and give them colonic irrigation. When a former chef returns to the island, it stirs up trouble for the family.

darkly comicquirkyoffbeatbleakdeadpanwhimsicalmacabreeccentric

What happens

Hotel Splendide is a 2000 British independent dark comedy film, written and directed by Terence Gross and starring Toni Collette and Daniel Craig. The film appeared in a number of British and European film festivals but was not released in the US, although it did appear on cable networks on channels catering to independent film. It was shown on Film4 in June 2026 in the UK, and available is available in the U.S. Via video on demand. The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch, Dame Blanche, until her death. Things continue with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and the love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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