Out of all the impressive buildings we see in films and series that have been created with such detail and execution, there aren't many more impressive than the hotels we have seen Whatever the film, whatever the setting, whatever the time period, the hotels that we see on the big screen are always given their own lease of life and can often turn into the emblem of the film.
There have been a wide range of cinematic hotels throughout the years ranging from scary hotels like the ones we can see in 'Psycho' and 'The Shining' to the more recent comedic cinematic hotels such as 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'.
Thinking about it, there's a wide range of hotels in film, so to pay tribute we have picked 8 hotels from films or television series that we wish existed in (or not in some cases) in real life.
1 Bates Motel
The famous motel where almost 60 years go Norman Bates committed his crimes has certainly left its mark on cinema. After the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself, the hotel became the emblem of the movie and has since been made into a Netflix series in the form of 'Bates Motel'. Therefore, it would be rude to leave this scary motel in the middle of nowhere out of our list especially with the mansion guarding over the motel making it even more darker and mysterious.
2 The Grand Budapest Hotel
For its colour, for the life that it brings, and for all the funny goings on inside the walls of this truly magnificent hotel, it really would be foolish to not give this masterpiece a mention. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', the 2014 comedy directed by Wes Anderson, deserves to be remembered for gifting us with a bunch of renowned actors that kept the hotel running whilst making us chuckle a fair bit. If we had the choice to stay in this hotel, there's no way we would turn it down.
3 Hotel Chevalier
4 Hotel Earle
The majority of 'Barton Fink', arguably one of the better films of the Coen brothers, takes place inside Hotel Earle where the progtagonist, a screenwriter who should be writing the script for a wrestling film however numerous distractions throughout stop the writer in his tracks which provides the viewers with an interesting psychological thriller.
5 Hotel Largo
The hotel in 'Key Largo', Hotel Largo, one of directors John Huston more renowned films, does not stand out for its interior qualities or excellent service. Instead, everything that goes on within the hotel is what makes us all so intrigued by this cinematographic hotel from the 1940s. The duel within the hotel that unravels between the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson is one reason to give this film a watch.
6 Overlook Hotel
The words to describe Overlook Hotel are endless. Spectacular, frightening, gloomy, mysterious to name but a few. This iconic hotel from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror, 'The Shining', has certainly left its mark on cinema as it tells the story of a family who head to the isolated hotel where an evil presence will come to haunt them.
7 Hotel Transylvania
For the third time, we find a film or series named after the hotel behind the story, and on this occasion we have an animated hotel in the form of Hotel Transylvania'. The famous monster hotel owned by Count Dracula accommodates the worlds monsters so they can take a well earned rest from human civilisation. To continue the adventures, a television series has been planned to tell the stories in the earlier years of the hotel which is due to be released sometime in 2017. This animated hotel deserves a rightful place in our list.
8 Lusman Arms
Our final hotel on the list comes from 'Toolbox Murders', a 2004 horror directed by Tobe Hooper who also directed the 1974 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. The film tells the story of how the occupants of the former luxury hotel named the Lusman Arms are stalked and murdered by a mysterious masked killer.