Charles Agron wrote and stars in Monday At 11:01 A.M., a movie that follows a guy who unwittingly brings his girlfriend to a hotel that threatens to make him insane. Lance Hernrikson stars alongside Agron as the eerie hotel bartender.

Charles Agron, Lance Henrikson

When Monday At 11:01 A.M opens, Michael (Agron) has just arrived at the boutique hotel in a quaint mountain town with his girlfriend, ready for a weekend of romance. Before long, things take a spooky turn. When the couple makes a move to vacate the premises, they learn that they’re trapped.

“[Michael] starts to realize that although this city seems packed the day before, there’s a lot less people the next day,” Agron told uInterview in an exclusive interview. “So, then the next night something even more horrific happens, and the next day Michael is the last person in this town other than the people in the hotel. Really just trying to kinda play with people’s ideas of, ‘Is this person going crazy or are the people in this town after him?'”

Henriksen’s bartender in Monday At 11:01 A.M  serves as something of a therapist for Michael and the other bar patrons that need assistance passing through chapters in their respective lives.

“I really see it as a facilitator, somebody that is helping somebody move through this period of their life,” explained Henriksen. “Like bartenders do; I mean I think they’re like psychiatrists in a sense. What they really want to do is keep you drinking and set your mind at ease and tell good jokes, that kind of thing.”

Henriksen added, “I think that the bartender in some ways in this enjoys watching people go through their thing so to speak, and facilitates getting them into a place they deserve to go.”

During Michael’s stay at the hotel in Monday At 11:01 A.M, he’s faced with myriad temptations. As a man who has the appearance of having it all, he’s thrown into a chaos that makes him – and his girlfriend – worry that he’s losing his mind.

“He’s stuck in this sort of dimension of trying to find the truth with everything that he understands and knows sort of disappearing,” Agron explained. “And so that juxtaposition is the most stressful thing for him.”

Monday At 11:01 A.M. hits select theaters Feb. 5, 2016.

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