Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Quiet Family (1998)

A family opens a hotel but business is slow due to the remote location. They hope to prosper as they are the only hotel near a popular mountain trail and there will soon be a road running through the area.

Their joy over the arrival of their first guest turns to distress the next day when they discover that he has committed suicide in his room. Fearing bad publicity for their new business, they decide to dispose of the body.

Each successive guest that checks in succumbs to some manner of death. The family repeats the pattern of burying the bodies and hoping that a guest will survive the night and their business will flourish.

When work on the new road is scheduled to begin, they realize that it is exactly where they buried the bodies. Panic sets in as they try to move the bodies and avoid the police who have started investigating the travelers who have gone missing.

I'm not sure if this would really fit into the horror category although it is a black comedy.

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