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The Innkeepers (2011)
Unusual in these bloodsoaked, CGI ravaged times to find a genuinely scary movie which leaves a lot (some might say a bit too much) to the viewer's imagination.
Sara Paxton is truly charming and very funny as the slacker/amateur ghosthunter working at a supposedly haunted hotel which is a couple of days away from closure.
Lots of false alarms and several flesh creeping moments plus some comedy from the staff's treatment of the remaining guests.
Ambivalent in its attitude to the supernatural to be sure but if you're not moved by the ending then you're dead inside.:)
Sara Paxton is truly charming and very funny as the slacker/amateur ghosthunter working at a supposedly haunted hotel which is a couple of days away from closure.
Lots of false alarms and several flesh creeping moments plus some comedy from the staff's treatment of the remaining guests.
Ambivalent in its attitude to the supernatural to be sure but if you're not moved by the ending then you're dead inside.:)
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It's only 100 minutes but I admit that at times it seemed longer.
I think the slow pace pointed up the creepier bits: I definitely felt my skin crawling at times and that is rare with most modern horror movies.
When all the scares are in out front in all their CGI glory, somehow it has less impact, even in well-made, big budget movies, e.g. the original "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" is far creepier than the recent lavish remake.
Similarly by the somewhat less subtle "The Legend of Hell House": even the book had me looking over my shoulder.:eek:
This type of movie affects me in way no gory and gruesome fx movie ever could.
Maybe someone will cast Sara Paxton in a series as a similar offbeat amateur ghosthunter but maybe a slightly more successful one. Clara is a great character.:cool:
Fail.
his previous film the house of the devil is MUCH better, and the same structure actually
Such an overused quip. It can't really be a "fail" if you enjoyed the majority. Slight contradiction.
I wondered where I'd seen Ti West's name before.
"House of the Devil" also ended just as it was getting interesting.
Seems to be his trademark.
it did yeah but i think HotD was massively creepy, and when it all went WTF at the end i was ****ing myself
Yes it can be a fail because it was a massive let down at the end thus constituting a fail in my books.