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The Innkeepers Trailer: You Can Check In Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (11)

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Ti West is a bit of a puzzle. My only experience with him comes from watching the decent House Of The Devil, which he directed, and seeing him act in the awful, awful movie Silver Bullets at SXSW this year. Another of his directorial efforts, The Innkeepers, also screened at the 2011 SXSW, but I wasn’t able to catch it. Other reviewers that I spoke to about it had mixed reviews — some loved it and hailed it as a good old fashioned haunted house movie that was legitimately scary, and others thought it was boring and derivative. That makes it tough to decide on.

The film is about two hotel employees trying to find evidence of the hotel’s haunted past, and the trailer is relatively effective in conveying its creepiness and atmosphere. At the same time, I’m not really seeing anything that hasn’t been done before, but there’s always something to be said for taking a tried-and-true formula and doing it well. What say you, peeps? Worthy, or schlocky?









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Comments

House of the Devil was so god damn good. I'll definitely give this a shot even though the trailer didn't really do much for me.

Don't forget- Ti West also directed "Cabin Fever 2, Electric Bugaloo". A bit of a puzzle, indeed.

Posted by: THRILLHO at November 7, 2011 10:37 AM

It looks decent enough to check out. But all I know for sure is that Zak Bagans will violently pleasure himself for the entire run time in the theater, and then claim he was posessed by a ghost during his arraignment.

Posted by: RobP at November 7, 2011 10:41 AM

I watch Ghost Adventures because it's so satisfying to hate Zak Bagans. What a douchenozzle!

Do I spy Kelly McGillis in The Innkeepers? I might give this a try.

Posted by: sunny at November 7, 2011 10:58 AM

House of the Devil= Most Over hyped genre film in the past five years.

Posted by: sosgemini at November 7, 2011 11:08 AM

Hahaha spot on, RobP. My favorite part of Ghost Adventure episodes are when Zak Bagans challenges "disembodied voices" to fight him.

So basically the entire show.

Posted by: THRILLHO at November 7, 2011 11:20 AM

i'm in for mcgillis.

Posted by: gp at November 7, 2011 12:10 PM

TK,
I'm so glad you mentioned the awfulness which was Silver Bullets, by FAR the worst movie I saw at SXSW. Again I'll point out, anytime a person can fall asleep while there are naked women on screen, your movie has failed. Terrible.
Having said that, I was one of the one's that loved The Innkeepers. It's well paced and full of humor, which makes it so much more shocking when it turns a 180 and becomes genuinely scary and suspenseful. Have the SXSW halfsheet hanging in my office.

Posted by: Travis at November 7, 2011 12:19 PM

The best part of ghost hunters is when they jump at absofuckinglutely nothing.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at November 7, 2011 12:42 PM

Definitely worthy. I would go see that, I love scary movies.

And yes, Zak Bagans. What a total douchenozzle.

Posted by: MRod at November 7, 2011 2:45 PM

I'll watch it.
Looks good. Simple but well-done.

Loved The House of The Devil. Great surprise of a film. Loved the "age" of it.

Posted by: grendel at November 7, 2011 5:25 PM

I loved House of the Devil, mostly because the pacing was well-done. Not original at all; I think the review on this site pointed out that it isn't a throwback to an 80s horror flick, it IS an 80s horror flick. This trailer makes the Innkeepers look similar in its deliberate pace & predictable story, but there is something to be said for doing it well. I look forward to wider release! It will most likely scare me to pieces because I am ridiculously high-strung. Just what I want with my horror.

Posted by: harlequin at November 7, 2011 5:41 PM