Let Me Be Your Shelley Duvall: Stewart Thorndike on Bad Things

The haunted halls of a defunct Catskills hotel wreak psychological violence on a group of young, queer city slickers in Bad Things, the long-awaited sophomore feature from writer-director Stewart Thorndike. Arriving nearly a decade after Lyle, Thorndike’s sapphic take on Rosemary’s Baby starring Gabby Hoffmann, Bad Things similarly tackles plot points and thematic fixations of another scary movie staple--Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining--through a thoroughly queer and feminist perspective. Ru...