| The Innkeepers (2011) |
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| Director: | Ti West |
| Writers: | Ti West |
| Starring: | Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, and Kelly McGillis |
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The Plot: Luke (Pat Healy) and Claire (Sara Paxton) are two desk clerks at The Yankee Pedlar, which is a not-too-popular hotel that provides them with a very low key job that doesn’t require much from these two slackers. Although this hotel might seem a bit decrepit and old fashioned, it is a building with a great deal of history. In the 1800s there lived a woman named Madeline O’Malley and she had a very personal connection with this building. It seems that O’Malley was permanently abandoned by her husband while staying in the Yankee Pedlar and she eventually hung herself in one of the rooms. The owners of the hotel then hid her body in the basement for years and it is now said that O’Malley’s ghost haunts the hotel. Luke and Claire are amateur supernatural detectives, and with nothing better to do throughout the night, they begin their search for O’Malley. Unfortunately, their curiosity may be their downfall. |
| The Review |
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If the movie has a major fault, it is probably its own lack of serious ambition. I absolutely love the characters of Luke and Claire, and this duo has a tremendous amount of chemistry onscreen together, but their adventures aren’t enough to make a classic horror title that fans will want to revisit over and over again. While I love what West does with this material, and I love the way he blends his genres, I don’t think that this is a story that has or should jump out to large audiences. To bring it right down to its basics, the movie is a creeping yet entertaining horror romp. What it does, it does right and it does it to the point of perfection, but the interest level that I have with the movie exists only at the start of the film and concludes in its final minutes. It’s not a title that I would rush out to recommend to all of my non-horror friends, nor do I think it is the movie that justifies all of the hype behind Ti West. The movie doesn’t have any tangible qualities that make it something completely new, innovative, or even worth rushing out to see, but it is good enough that real horror fans should absolutely search it out in order to watch it at least once. It has its elements that will distract some viewers, and I have some friends who genuinely hated it, but for the most part I love almost everything about the movie.
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