DAVID LYNCH’S HOTEL ROOM 1993 BARRY GIFFORD MONTY MONTGOMERY DEEPAK NAYAR HARRY DEAN STANTON CRISPIN GLOVER TV SHOW DVD-R!

Hotel Room (also known as David Lynch’s Hotel Room) is an American drama anthology series that aired for three half-hour episodes on HBO on January 8, 1993, with a rerun the next night. Created by Monty Montgomery and David Lynch (who directed two episodes), each drama stars a different cast and takes place in hotel room 603 of the New York City–based “Railroad Hotel”, in the years 1969, 1992, and 1936, respectively. The three episodes were created to be shown together in the form of a feature-length pilot, with the hope that if they were well received, a series of episodes in the same stand-alone half-hour format would be produced later. Following a lukewarm reception, HBO chose to not produce more episodes.

Each story stars a new cast, and takes place in a different year, but is confined in the room 603 of the Railroad Hotel in New York City. The same bellboy and maid appear in each story, as if they do not age.

Barry Gifford wrote and Lynch directed the first and third episodes; Lynch had previously adapted Gifford’s Wild at Heart novel to film. Jay McInerney wrote and James Signorelli directed the second. The series was produced by Deepak Nayar, who worked with Lynch on Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and On the Air, and executive produced by Monty Montgomery and Lynch. This was Peter Deming‘s second collaboration as cinematographer with Lynch after On the Air. The music was composed, conducted and orchestrated by frequent Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti, while Lynch was responsible for the sound design.

According to Gifford, HBO was trying to emulate the success of the anthology series Tales from the Crypt, but “wanted sexier or comedic pieces, not serious sex and not satire exactly, but something else.”

Gifford wrote five scripts, of which HBO produced two. He retained the rights to all five, and has turned them into plays that have been performed in several U.S. states. The teleplays for “Tricks” and “Blackout”, along with the unproduced “Mrs. Kashfi”, which HBO deemed too controversial, have been published in a book by the University Press of Mississippi. “Blackout” was written in just two days, to replace a script by David Mamet that Montgomery was dissatisfied with. Gifford’s script was only 17 pages long, but Lynch’s cut of it came in at 47 minutes, by far the longest of the three episodes. HBO aired a truncated version of it, but the VHS release contains the longer, and director’s preferred, version.

Hotel Room was broadcast on HBO on January 8, 1993, at 11 pm, and again on January 9, at 12 pm. In its first broadcast, it rated first in its time slot on HBO.

The three episodes of the anthology were released on VHS by Worldvision Enterprises. In Japan, a LaserDisc with English audio and burned-in Japanese subtitles was released by Pony Canyon. Bootleg DVDs captured from these sources also exist.

this DVD-R contains the original stereo Worldvision VHS tape, color corrected and fixed up for your enjoyment. DVD-R comes packaged as shown in color DVD case, wrapped in plastic!