pray for morning start a a few teen friend decide to spend the night in the royal crescent hotel and a large rundown long abandon hotel that be the scene of five gruesome murder back in 1984. jesse ( jonathon trent ) have always be interested in the hotel and drawn to the mystery surround the still unsolved murder and he have convince some of his high school mate to accompany him and during the middle of the night of course because go there during the day when it be light would just be silly . once there they decide to check out the room in which the five body be find and before anyone know it an evil ghostly spirit have be awaken and be kill the teen off one by one and unless they can stop it none of them will live to see the morning . write and direct by cartney wearn i watch pray for morning last night without know a thing about it and the title be rather vague and could have refer to anything so i do not go into it with any great expectation yet i still find myself disappointed and not particularly have a good time . what we have here be a cross between the shining ( 1980 ) with it hotel style setting and the amityville horror ( 1979 ) with the now standard haunt house scenario ( spooky property have a dark past and you know the sort of thing ) along with a few boring mystery element throw in there for good measure . the film spend far too much time show annoying american teen wonder around this old hotel in the dark and it just doesn not make for particularly entertaining viewing and get very boring very quickly . the script be predictable and be nothing more than a teen slasher with some tenuous supernatural element along with an obligatory twist end which do not do much for me at all to be honest a i think it be pretty ineffectual . there be one amazing scene i just couldn not work out and in it one of the annoying american high school teen examine a twenty year old blood stain and determines that whoever leave the stain be try to hide something . how on earth do you work that out . also it turn out that whatever the victim be try to hide they hide inside an nearby air vent so when they be kill how could they have be try to hide something when they have clearly already hide it . also why do not the police find that severed hand in the vent only a few foot away . accord to early exposition the police have tear the place apart look for clue so why not find that severed hand only a few foot away from a murder victim . the police obviously do not do a very good job and do they . there no explanation a to how or why there a ghost in the hotel or how it manage to alter reality or how it can transport people back in time and and of course and the annoying american teen mobile phone do not work for no apparent reason either so they get isolate from the outside world in a now obligatory plot device for low budget horror film . the story doesn not engage or entertain and that character be both poor and annoy and the plot be forgettable and not that much actually happen . the hotel set or location ( not sure if they film in a real hotel or in a studio ) be quite nice but why be some of the light on . wouldn not the electricity have be turn off . horror wise there not much to get excite about here and there a few bloody corps and what look like a bamboo stick stick through someone but not much else and there not much in the way of scare since the less than impressive cgi computer effect have the opposite effect and make thing almost laughable . there be one or two bit with a decent atmosphere but it never sustain for any period of time . the film seem to take itself very seriously and there no humour or fun to be see anywhere which doesn not help when the plot feel so stale and lethargic . to give it some credit there be a few period flashback at the end which be quite nicely do i suppose . with a supposed budget of about $ 2 and 000 and 000 this have good production value than a lot of recent low budget horror but that hardly any sort of recommendation on it own . film in los angeles . the only real cast member of note be cult german bear actor udo kier who doesn not look interested at all and to my eye seem to put on more weight in every subsequent film he make ( the steven seagal of the low budget horror world . ) . pray for morning be a dull supernatural teen horror slasher that doesn not satisfy on any level really and never mind pray for morning i would suggest that most audience will be pray for it to finish not too long after it have start .