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Hotal (2014)

Hotal poster
Directed by
Khalid Hasan Khan
Genre
horror film
Country
Pakistan
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A psychological thriller set in Pakistan. A mysterious and frightening experience unfolds, centered on characters trapped in a disturbing situation in a hotel.

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What happens

Hotal, also spelled as Hotel, is a 2014 Pakistani psychological thriller film, written and directed by Khalid Hasan Khan. It is claimed to be Pakistan's first psycho-thriller feature film. It was also tagged as the first Hindi feature film outside Bollywood. The film stars Meera, Humayun Gillani, Sadiq A. Khan, Neha Anil, Tariq Jamal, Baila Naz, Anees Raja, Nisa Jabie, Nasreen Jaan and Wiam Dahmani. The film was released on 13 May 2016. Upon release, it received overwhelming negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure. The same year, critic Omair Alavi added the film in his list of ''Top Worst Pakistani films of 2016.'' (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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