The Innkeepers
The Innkeepers
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees - Claire and Luke - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
3.3 out of 5 based on 6 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
15 |
| Genre |
Horror, Thriller |
| Director |
Ti West |
| Cast |
Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis Sara Paxton |
| Studio |
Metrodome Group |
| Release Date |
June 2012 |
| Running Time |
101 mins |
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After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees - Claire and Luke - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
Reviews
Total Film
Rosie Fletcher
“Just like in The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers takes its time to build, cranking up the tension as your sympathy for Claire and Luke deepens. But unlike House, The Innkeepers’ pay-off completely delivers. Wincingly frightening, sad and satisfying, at its heartbreaking conclusion The Innkeepers treads a carefully ambiguous path which resonates long after the creepy final coda. It’s one of the scariest, and best, horror films of recent years.”
29/05/2012
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Empire Magazine
Kim Newman
“It’s a play-it-both ways spooker, always maintaining the possibility that the ghost is in Claire’s mind — though West cannily rams home the point that this doesn’t really make any difference. The last act produces a crescendo of terror and peril, but the reason it works so well is that West first involves us so deeply in the characters.”
05/06/2012
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Time Out
Tom Huddleston
“The ghost story element of The Innkeepers is determinedly, perhaps even lazily, old-fashioned, but the heart of the movie is in the characters and their interactions. With a rambling plot and effortlessly likeable comic turns from both leads, this is much closer to the loose, semi-improvised freshness of mumblecore than to a traditional horror movie. But this only serves to make the film’s sparing moments of suspense all the more unsettling: we truly care for these characters, and can’t bear the thought of them coming to harm.”
06/06/2012
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The New York Times
A. O. Scott
“What was that noise? Don’t turn around! Don’t go down those stairs! It works every time. But at the same time, as if taking its cue from Luke and Claire, “The Innkeepers” does not seem to work very hard. What distinguishes it as a new-breed horror movie is the minimalism of its story and the abrasive aimlessness of its main characters.”
02/02/2012
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The Times
Kevin Maher
“Few shocks, some awful banter, and a co-starring role for Kelly McGillis fail to elevate proceedings.”
08/06/2012
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“Three years ago, horror director Ti West made The House of the Devil, a movie which, frustratingly, failed to deliver on its promise; and the same thing happens with his new film, a single-location haunted-hotel film that is bafflingly bland and unatmospheric. In narrative terms, it pretty much treads water until the final 10 minutes. ”
07/06/2012
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