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Set in New England's Yankee Pedlar Inn (where West's cast and crew stayed in 2008 while filming House of the Devil and where, according to the press notes, nightmares were had by all), the film opens with gentle comedy and ends in expected tragedy.Įvents between unfold with the director's signature slow burn and unshakable patience, a style that will please his fans but is unlikely to hold the attention of audiences unaccustomed to splatter-free fake-outs and an emphasis on dialogue over special effects. In many ways, The Innkeepers is really a study of lonely people and arguably lonely ghosts. This latest, lovingly executed experiment in genre minimalism is altogether more conventional, though not necessarily the poorer for it. During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotels haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old gues. A couple of years earlier, in Trigger Man, he took us on a spine-tingling hunting trip in the Delaware woods alongside three unlucky New Yorkers who discover that deer may not be the only prey. In his 2009 breakthrough, The House of the Devil, he dropped a young babysitter into hell and his audience into a surprisingly effective take on cults and creeps. 'The Innkeepers,' written, directed and edited by Ti West, is set on the last weekend of the hotel, which is scheduled to close.The third floor is already shut down, and only four rooms are in use in the second floor, two of them occupied by 20-ish Claire (Sara Paxton) and 30-ish Luke ().
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The greatest shock in The Innkeepers is that this old-school ghost story offers neither originality nor scares - because the young director Ti West knows full well how to do both.