Synopsis
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
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Cast
- Sara PaxtonClaire
- Pat HealyLuke
- Alison BartlettAngry Mom
- Jake RyanYoung Boy
- Kelly McGillisLeanne Jones
- Lena DunhamBarista
- Brenda CooneyMadeline O'Malley
- George RiddleOld Man
- John SperedakosOfficer Mitchell
- Sean ReidMedic
Recommendations
- 88
Slant Magazine
Winding up the tension to an almost stubborn degree, Ti West forestalls the inevitable disappointment of its release, a blow that's further softened by how immaculately the whole movie is shot. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Wide-eyed Sara Paxton and hipster-bespectacled Pat Healy play the joint's only two employees, working each other into a lather of what turns out to be well-founded hysteria. Kelly McGillis is a surprise treat as a grouchy medium. - 83
IndieWire
West, who demonstrated a penchant for extensive build-ups in "The House of the Devil" and "Trigger Man," continually makes it unclear if the inn actually harbors a ghost or if his heroine (Sara Paxton) has simply imagines it. Both she and her hilariously frazzled co-worker (Pat Healy of "Great World of Sound") want to believe in supernatural affairs for the thrill factor alone. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
A poky but blood-freezing throwback to the gothic horror films of the seventies, when ingénues moved tremulously down dark corridors without holding digital video cameras. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The result is a largely entertaining picture with too few (and late-arriving) scares to satisfy the multiplex crowd, but one that will please many die-hard genre aficionados. - 70
Variety
Slow-burning buildup, lack of explicit mayhem and overall low-tech approach may strike cineastes as amusingly quaint. - 70
Village Voice
It's this youthful denial of vulnerability that makes West's slow-sidling haunted-house movies work. He understands the kidding way that his audience approaches horror and seems to play along with that jokey imperviousness - until rudely tearing up the all-in-good-fun contract, gouging us with actual pain. - 70
Movieline
Without a strong story to dance with, all of those fabulous tracking shots, lovingly uncanny art direction details and flickering shafts of light can make The Innkeepers feel more like an exercise in craft than a scary movie.
