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Originally Posted by nekromantik  Just seen Ti West's Innkeepers!
It was very good, much better then house of the devil.
Its a slow build just like his past flicks but then it gets creepy and has good atmosphere that haunted house movies of recent era lack. The last 30 mins are very creepy!
Good watch 
8/10 |
One of my least fave films of last year. Although many, including your good self would disagree with me.
I thought that it really lacked any interesting characters. Even Kelly McGillis's turn was pretty thin and the two leads were the kind of 2D semi-slacker archetypes that were popular years ago, but now just seem weak parodies.
The apparent tension of the film that people talked about was as convincing as ghost train ride, and the frankly dull ambiguous ending left me yawning.
I've yet to see
House of the Devil, but a few people who were fans of that thought that
The Innkeepers was a bit of a let down, but as I said I'm definitely in the minority. It's just that if this is the future of horror films (along with
The Woman), then these young(ish) film makers really need to buck their ideas up because I see nothing inspiring about these lacklustre efforts.
If I had to callously sum it up in a tweet: It's like a Daniel Clowes fan trying to recreate Kubrick's The Shining... poorly.
(Actually that'd probably be very appealing to a lot of people)
