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It doesn't break any rules of the genre, but The Innkeepers serves as additional proof that Ti West is a young director that discriminating horror fans can trust.
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The movie never entirely flatlines, and there are some funny touches, but it annoyingly fails to do anything with the kooky situation it elaborately establishes, and there are no real shocks or laughs. Jun 7, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The movie never entirely flatlines, and there are some funny touches, but it annoyingly fails to do anything with the kooky situation it elaborately establishes, and there are no real shocks or laughs.
Peter Bradshaw
Hardcore horror heads may scorn its snail pace and shaggy-dog sweetness, but for discerning viewers, 'The Innkeepers' is a slow-burning charmer. Jun 6, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Hardcore horror heads may scorn its snail pace and shaggy-dog sweetness, but for discerning viewers, 'The Innkeepers' is a slow-burning charmer.
Tom Huddleston
We can't dissociate ourselves from the evil because, as in much of the best horror, what's scaring us isn't external; it's everything we fear seeing when we look in the mirror. Feb 10, 2012 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
We can't dissociate ourselves from the evil because, as in much of the best horror, what's scaring us isn't external; it's everything we fear seeing when we look in the mirror.
Ian Buckwalter
Fans of the horror genre can expect to get all nostalgic about the 1970s feel to the action, which most certainly includes people going down the basement, all alone, in the dark, and that sort of thing. Feb 9, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Fans of the horror genre can expect to get all nostalgic about the 1970s feel to the action, which most certainly includes people going down the basement, all alone, in the dark, and that sort of thing.
Liz Braun
West freshens up the horror genre with a distinctive, careful camera style and an ability to write with empathy and humor. Feb 6, 2012 | Full Review…
West freshens up the horror genre with a distinctive, careful camera style and an ability to write with empathy and humor.
Bruce Diones
The Innkeepers makes such youthful passivity seem nearly as treacherous as opening the cellar door. Feb 3, 2012 | Full Review…
The Innkeepers makes such youthful passivity seem nearly as treacherous as opening the cellar door.
Mary F. Pols
It's only really for specific moments that The Innkeepers very obviously feels like a horror film, yet it is effectively creepy. Feb 28, 2019 | Full Review…
It's only really for specific moments that The Innkeepers very obviously feels like a horror film, yet it is effectively creepy.
Naila Scargill
Even so, The Innkeepers is a decent entry in the haunted premises genre, contained and spooky. Feb 5, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Even so, The Innkeepers is a decent entry in the haunted premises genre, contained and spooky.
Abbie Bernstein
The film's greatest strength lies in the performances from Healy and, in particular, Paxton. Aug 23, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film's greatest strength lies in the performances from Healy and, in particular, Paxton.
Joseph Walsh
The Innkeepers starts unevenly, but ratchets up the tension until the explosively weird finale. And it will teach you to cover your freakin ears. May 23, 2018 | Full Review…
The Innkeepers starts unevenly, but ratchets up the tension until the explosively weird finale. And it will teach you to cover your freakin ears.
Annalee Newitz
It's what your own brain fills in that makes The Innkeepers so chilling and effective, and [Ti] West knows it. Sep 19, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's what your own brain fills in that makes The Innkeepers so chilling and effective, and [Ti] West knows it.
Nadia Attia
The indie king of the slow-burn horror flick is back, and this time Ti West is bringing along an unexpected dose of wit, warmth, and weirdly effective character-based comedy. Aug 26, 2015 | Full Review…
The indie king of the slow-burn horror flick is back, and this time Ti West is bringing along an unexpected dose of wit, warmth, and weirdly effective character-based comedy.
Scott Weinberg
Another display of talent from Ti West, who better than many understands that more efficient than the scares is the tension that comes from the waiting and from what we don't see; he's just not so skillful though in providing a payoff worthy of all the buildup.
Super Reviewer
After seeing high reviews and many horror fans praise this movie, I must say I was pretty disappointed. I loved Ti West's House of the Devil, but this isn't remotely on the same level as that. They both are throwbacks to before horror movies were more about gore and jump scares, but the difference is that The Innkeepers doesn't have likable characters and is much more of a slow burner than House of the Devil. I was so bored for the first hour that I was just hoping something interesting would happen. There's three chapters and an epilogue, with each chapter being about 30 minutes. It wasn't until chapter three that I was interested at all. Add in the fact that it isn't scary at all and you have a well made, but flat film that didn't resonate with me. Others will love its old school vibes, but I would rather recommend them House of the Devil than this.
A pair of hotel clerks decide to investigate the legend of a ghost said to haunt their hotel in the last days before it's closed; they'll wish they hadn't. Old-fashioned ghost story that's well-made but too slow paced and low key for most horror fans.
[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] Ti West once again proves that he understands the mechanics of constructing horror from building up an eerie atmosphere to crafting an interesting character out of the "screamer girl" straight after some previously impressive films. He really is a great director, but unfortunately all The Innkeepers does is demonstrate that very fact. In this he intelligently crafts some good scares out of the simple use of camera movement and on a technical level he suceeds in building tension but what it all adds up to is a database of every horror cliche in the book that just happens to look polished and well thought out. As a result of this you can see the ending from about a mile away so i'd be lying if I didn't say I found myself bored waiting for the finale. I would have been fine with it if it didn't make one fatal mistake. Essentially it was one of those scenes in a haunted house horror where a character doesn't decide to leave endangerment and makes one of the most common sense lacking decisions possible. It was a genuine shame, the film started out so well, there were a few scenes that convinced me it was a horror comedy, it managed to be scary and funny simultaneously and that's something very difficult to pull off. That was very entertaining while it lasted though in the end I felt dissapointed simply because it's a film that does everything it can to engross you in the atmosphere but then makes one false move and lets go.
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