So Cold the River, Creepy Hotel Carnage

I have got to stay at the West Baden Springs Hotel in Indiana!  After watching this film, this is the takeaway I convey to you. This place looks really creepy, I am guessing ghosts appeared during filming of this movie. I wonder if they take IHG or Marriott Bonvoy points.  Anyone know? Ominous, dark, and eerie through the entire 95 minutes, 2022's "So Cold the River," directed by Paul Shoulberg, is our entry today.

Erica (Bethany Joy Lenz) is a babe.  A haunted babe.  A babe with tremendous guilt from a horrible episode years ago. She now has a "gift," or should I say "curse."  She goes around filming events, usually funerals, looks at the footage and sees things others can't see.  Dead people, past events, eerie horrors, you name it, none of it will be edifying. Now she is hired by a relative of the almost dead Campbell Bradford (Michael J. Rogers). He has to be over 100 years old and is in a coma. The relative wants his story, as Bradford is a bit of an enigma...an evil enigma. Erica sets up her camera and guess what!  Yep. The weird happens. You'll see, but it is creepy.  Now Erica feels compelled to document, in her videos, the story of Bradford and this hotel he owns.  Now she stays at this hotel and sets up shop.

Erica sees things.  Now she is seeing visions and maybe hallucinating. Bradford's past and that of the hotel is a bloody one.  A lot of gory death.  But why?  Did Bradford kill everyone?  Is he still killing everyone? The spooky setting of the hotel will make one think the building is cursed.  She'll find a descendant of Bradford (Andrew J. West).  He is a hunk.  She'll have passion with this descendant.  Then we find out this hunk is kind of psycho.  He likes to blow up things.  I know, who doesn't?  Where is this all leading?  I have to confess, experienced horror film buffs will see where this is going within the first ten minutes of the film.  Still, it is spookily atmospheric and ominous.

Will Erica be all consumed by Bradford and the hotel and not be able to leave?  Is Bradford really the evil being Erica is seeing in her visions?  If you screw a psycho, will you...wait, I withdraw the question.  Like this film or not, horror film fans will be googling this hotel and looking for weekend rates. Trust me.  See "So Cold the River" and finally see a hotel in the movies creepier than The Overlook.