5 Oddly Specific Movie Tropes Hollywood Is Obsessed With Right Now
2. An Establishment Full Of Criminals
With movies like Suicide Squad and Venom pushing anti-heroes and villains into protagonist roles, it's now considered cool to make a movie about the bad guys.
While this could be considered a trend or trope in its own right, it's not quite as specific as the current raft of movies that decided to feature a hotel/other similar establishment that's built specifically for criminals, or one that just happens to feature a ton of bad people all at once.
Tarantino's The Hateful Eight finds a gang of kooky scoundrels all gathered together in a snowy lodge. They're not all criminals, but none of them are very nice people, and they're all capable of - and definitely do - bad things.
This year's Hotel Artemis felt very similar; the entire movie was about a criminals-only hospital run by a judicious nurse (played by Jodie Foster). Like The Hateful Eight, it featured a gang of wildly different, very bad people all shoved together inside a single building, with predictably violent results.
In addition, both John Wick movies feature a hotel called The Continental, a location built specifically for assassins, thugs and other shady individuals to rest up, stay safe and prepare for their next assignment or two.
And the icing on this trope-heavy cake is the upcoming Bad Times At The El Royale, which is about - you guessed it - a hotel that houses several sinister guests. Obviously, with the film being unreleased we can't say anything more about it, but the trailer makes it seem like a cross between The Hateful Eight and The Continental.
To add to this pile, there's also an in-development TV show specifically about The Continental, and if you really want, you can throw the Hotel Transylvania series in here too.