Meanwhile, Pat Healy, as Luke, is strong in a different way, arguably with a slightly less clear-cut character, but just as interesting to spend time with. She sells the monotony, and then gradually creeping sense of unease, with a restraint that suggests there’s a lot, lot more to come in her career. Sara Paxton’s Claire is a believable lead character, and takes centre stage for much of the movie. He’s served well by two particularly strong performances in front of the camera, too. The Innkeepers has no such paucity of such moments, and West proves expert at pulling his shocks off. As lauded as the excellent The Cabin In The Woods was earlier in the year, the one ingredient it perhaps lacked was an ability to make you jump out of your seat.
It’s brilliantly paced, with the spookier elements of the film gradually coming more and more into play.Īnd The Innkeepers most certainly is spooky. The Innkeepers is a film where not much, you could argue, tends to happen, but it really feels like there’s lots going on, even in the stillness of it all. But he proves expert at slowly, gently, building up the tension. Sure, he mixes in his very close shots to build up shock value with the wider, emptier frames. It’s West’s diligence and skill behind the camera that’s instrumental in this working quite so well. A few spooky stories, the Internet, and the odd hint of something more between the two seem to pass the time. Those members of staff – Luke and Claire – have long since run out of any affection for the place, and are more interested in getting through the last long nights without getting bored. A long-running hotel lies all-but-empty on its last weekend of business before closing down, with just a handful of guests, and two bored members of staff left to run the place.
THE INNKEEPERS KELLY MCGILLIS MOVIE
The setting could come from any movie from the corner of the video shop. It’s also one of the best horror films in some time.
Keeping its shock moments in its pocket until they’re needed, narrowing down its gore to what’s necessary and eschewing the nastier edges of the genre, The Innkeepers emerges as a tense, engaging, properly-made piece of work. In the case of The Innkeepers, Incredibly well, in fact.
Given the number of gimmicks and distractions that have increasingly dominated the horror movie genre, it’s massively refreshing to be able to talk about a film that bothers to do the basics well. The unhurried gait of The House Of The Devil and the new film The Innkeepers have led to director Ti West being hailed as the king of slow.
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