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Movie ID: 1461
RT slug: the_innkeepers
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_innkeepers
Release year: 2012
Runtime: 101 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2012-02-03
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2012-06-07
Tomatometer final: 81%
Audience score final: 42%
Genres: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: Ti West
Writers: Ti West
Producers: Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Ti West
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-10-05 20:50:24
Updated: 2026-10-05 20:50:24
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.
It doesn't break any rules of the genre, but The Innkeepers serves as additional proof that Ti West is a young director that discriminating horror fans can trust.
Canonical reviews: 118
Canonical fresh: 96
Canonical rotten: 22
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 118 (96/22), 81% (81.356% raw)
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-10-05 14:48:15
Snapshot Tomatometer: 81%
Snapshot review count: 118
Snapshot fresh count: 96
Snapshot rotten count: 22
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #4364 (full_snapshot)
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| Dark Sky Films | production |
| Glass Eye Pix | production |
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| 1 | Sara Paxton | Claire |
| 2 | Pat Healy | Luke |
| 3 | Kelly McGillis | Leanne Rease-Jones |
| 4 | George Riddle | Old Man |
| 5 | Brenda Cooney | Madeline O'Malley |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 286992 | Patrick Cavanaugh | The Wolfman Cometh | Fresh | 4/5 | 2025-09-09T18:14:32.000Z | 2025-09-09 18:14:32 | The supernatural elements are exactly as spooky as they need to be, but the chemistry between Paxton and Healy is what truly makes this a delight. |
| 286993 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-10-11T21:34:12.000Z | 2023-10-11 21:34:12 | Ti West, serving as writer, director, and editor, has such control over his medium that we cannot help but have the bejesus scared out of us. |
| 286994 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-08-22T14:44:40.000Z | 2022-08-22 14:44:40 | ...the inn is established as one of the film’s most intriguing characters. |
| 286995 | Tom Meek | Cambridge Day | Rotten | 2/4 | 2020-08-07T22:43:00.000Z | 2020-08-07 22:43:00 | The cast, especially Paxton, is excellent, but the film doesn't quite know how to transition from character study to creepshow. |
| 286996 | Naila Scargill | Exquisite Terror | Fresh | — | 2019-02-28T12:35:29.000Z | 2019-02-28 12:35:29 | It's only really for specific moments that The Innkeepers very obviously feels like a horror film, yet it is effectively creepy. |
| 286997 | Abbie Bernstein | Assignment X | Fresh | B- | 2019-02-06T01:35:05.000Z | 2019-02-06 01:35:05 | Even so, The Innkeepers is a decent entry in the haunted premises genre, contained and spooky. |
| 286998 | Joseph Walsh | CineVue | Fresh | 3/5 | 2018-08-23T22:57:24.000Z | 2018-08-23 22:57:24 | The film's greatest strength lies in the performances from Healy and, in particular, Paxton. |
| 286999 | Annalee Newitz | io9.com | Fresh | — | 2018-05-23T18:26:25.000Z | 2018-05-23 18:26:25 | The Innkeepers starts unevenly, but ratchets up the tension until the explosively weird finale. And it will teach you to cover your freakin ears. |
| 287000 | Nadia Attia | SciFiNow | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-09-19T20:06:20.000Z | 2017-09-19 20:06:20 | It's what your own brain fills in that makes The Innkeepers so chilling and effective, and [Ti] West knows it. |
| 287001 | Scott Weinberg | TheHorrorShow | Fresh | — | 2015-08-26T16:55:40.000Z | 2015-08-26 16:55:40 | The indie king of the slow-burn horror flick is back, and this time Ti West is bringing along an unexpected dose of wit, warmth, and weirdly effective character-based comedy. |
| 287002 | Ken Hanke | Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-08-14T12:59:57.000Z | 2013-08-14 12:59:57 | What finally sells The Innkeepers is the fact that the payoff really pays off. |
| 287003 | John Hanlon | Big Hollywood | Fresh | 4.0/5 | 2013-06-30T17:13:36.000Z | 2013-06-30 17:13:36 | A suspenseful and well-crafted old-fashioned ghost story. |
| 287004 | Jeff Beck | We Got This Covered | Fresh | 7/10 | 2013-01-23T00:56:39.000Z | 2013-01-23 00:56:39 | Sometimes all it takes to make a decent little horror film is some good atmosphere and realistic characters. |
| 287005 | Tim Brayton | Antagony & Ecstasy | Fresh | 7/10 | 2012-12-05T14:25:19.000Z | 2012-12-05 14:25:19 | Just enough depth of character and place that it's smarter than your average paranormal flick. |
| 287006 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Rotten | C | 2012-11-27T10:45:31.000Z | 2012-11-27 10:45:31 | The acting is pretty good, and the characters are interesting, but the screenplay lacks the imagination it takes to elevate this story above the ordinary, predictable level of a common ghost story. It doesn't help this was also done on the cheap. |
| 287007 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B- | 2012-11-21T08:20:36.000Z | 2012-11-21 08:20:36 | Entertaining creepy B horror pic. |
| 287008 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Fresh | — | 2012-11-16T04:31:59.000Z | 2012-11-16 04:31:59 | When it delivers in horror and scares, it really excels with some shocking special effects and plays on sound effects... |
| 287009 | William Bibbiani | CraveOnline | Fresh | 8/10 | 2012-08-22T15:37:46.000Z | 2012-08-22 15:37:46 | 'A perfectly creepy scarefest with standout performances across the board.' |
| 287010 | Richard Knight | Knight at the Movies | Fresh | — | 2012-07-15T21:26:02.000Z | 2012-07-15 21:26:02 | Diverting and certainly worthy of examination; given all these pluses, I'd like to have seen more of West's compelling backstory threaded into his narrative. |
| 287011 | David Michael Brown | Empire Magazine Australasia | Fresh | — | 2012-06-27T23:16:12.000Z | 2012-06-27 23:16:12 | 3 An enjoyable chiller that isn't afraid to show less. |
| 287012 | Jeremy Heilman | MovieMartyr.com | Fresh | 60/100 | 2012-06-11T14:03:14.000Z | 2012-06-11 14:03:14 | The pleasures here are small, but sure to be resonant for horror film fans. |
| 287013 | Ian Berriman | SFX Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-06-11T03:16:27.000Z | 2012-06-11 03:16:27 | A gruelling trial of audience patience. |
| 287014 | Philip French | Observer (UK) | Fresh | — | 2012-06-10T07:10:47.000Z | 2012-06-10 07:10:47 | The film is scary enough to keep you alert in the cinema, but unlikely to give you a sleepless night. |
| 287015 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2012-06-08T14:25:42.000Z | 2012-06-08 14:25:42 | West continues to tread a delightful path between winking dread and the real kind, but his pacing's off in the build-up, partly because of the many, many opportunities Paxton has to flee out the front door. |
| 287016 | Allan Hunter | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2012-06-08T05:08:14.000Z | 2012-06-08 05:08:14 | It has some charm but is quite underwhelming. |
| 287017 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-06-07T14:56:44.000Z | 2012-06-07 14:56:44 | The movie never entirely flatlines, and there are some funny touches, but it annoyingly fails to do anything with the kooky situation it elaborately establishes, and there are no real shocks or laughs. |
| 287018 | Graham Young | Birmingham Post | Fresh | 3/5 | 2012-06-07T09:24:32.000Z | 2012-06-07 09:24:32 | Naturally, if you don't like the sight of blood on screen stay well clear, but, for the most part, this is an atmospheric, ghost-hunting piece with a greater emphasis on old fashioned chills. |
| 287019 | Matthew Turner | ViewLondon | Fresh | 5/5 | 2012-06-06T13:32:47.000Z | 2012-06-06 13:32:47 | Unmissable and one of the best films of the year. |
| 287020 | Rob Daniel | Sky Cinema | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-06-06T08:48:38.000Z | 2012-06-06 08:48:38 | West knows how to shoot an empty room and make it unnerving and has fun with characters hearing sounds through recording devices that aren't evident to the naked ear. |
| 287021 | Tom Huddleston | Time Out | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-06-06T08:47:29.000Z | 2012-06-06 08:47:29 | Hardcore horror heads may scorn its snail pace and shaggy-dog sweetness, but for discerning viewers, 'The Innkeepers' is a slow-burning charmer. |
| 287022 | Kim Newman | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-06-03T16:20:37.000Z | 2012-06-03 16:20:37 | Among the current crop of ghost stories, this is an outstanding effort. Ti West is shaping up as an authentic Master Of Horror. |
| 287023 | Mark Pfeiffer | Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | Fresh | B | 2012-06-02T18:22:14.000Z | 2012-06-02 18:22:14 | Although not up to the high standard of writer-director Ti West's previous film The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers is another often chilling exercise in building mood and atmosphere. |
| 287024 | Tom Clift | Moviedex | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2012-05-31T22:47:11.000Z | 2012-05-31 22:47:11 | While the ghost story is familiar, The Innkeepers ultimately stands out from other contemporary horror films because it's easy to like and identify with the characters |
| 287025 | Simon Foster | sbs.com.au | Fresh | — | 2012-05-31T13:16:26.000Z | 2012-05-31 13:16:26 | You can see a thinly-veiled repackaging of The Shining if you look hard enough, but as many patrons will be watching through their fingers, the similarities won't matter that much over the course of this terrific ghost story. |
| 287026 | Paul Chambers | CNNRadio | Rotten | C- | 2012-05-27T13:04:37.000Z | 2012-05-27 13:04:37 | Sara Paxton is so photogenic and her acting is so nice that I wish there was more for her to do. Instead she just wonders about the near-empty hotel, reacting to cheap scares. Ho hum! |
| 287027 | Miles Fielder | The List | Fresh | 3/5 | 2012-05-11T13:52:45.000Z | 2012-05-11 13:52:45 | West has delivered a genuinely involving and disconcerting chiller that's closer than anything else to a decent 50s B-movie. |
| 287028 | Brian Holcomb | CinemaBlend | Fresh | — | 2012-05-01T09:24:47.000Z | 2012-05-01 09:24:47 | 4.5 Like his work or not, Ti West's follow up to "The House of the Devil" is another fine piece of craftsmanship. |
| 287029 | R.L. Shaffer | IGN DVD | Fresh | 9/10 | 2012-04-26T13:35:17.000Z | 2012-04-26 13:35:17 | The Innkeepers is an eerie, haunting and sometimes funny ghostly chiller that's bound to win over those with a taste for classic nail-biting horror. |
| 287030 | Mark Ramsey | MovieJuice! | Fresh | A- | 2012-04-23T16:33:19.000Z | 2012-04-23 16:33:19 | Interview with Director/Writer Ti West. I liked this movie! |
| 287031 | Matt Brunson | Creative Loafing | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-24T12:37:21.000Z | 2012-02-24 12:37:21 | West not only bypasses the gore galore but also largely avoids those cheap gotcha scares that directors employ when they're unable to generate genuine suspense. |
| 287032 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-02-24T10:04:40.000Z | 2012-02-24 10:04:40 | With The Innkeepers, West has both perfectly followed up his previous film and improved on it. |
| 287033 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2012-02-12T14:55:44.000Z | 2012-02-12 14:55:44 | But the real star here is the Yankee Peddler, the New England landmark showing itself off to perfection. |
| 287034 | Ian Buckwalter | The Atlantic | Fresh | 8/10 | 2012-02-10T12:58:59.000Z | 2012-02-10 12:58:59 | We can't dissociate ourselves from the evil because, as in much of the best horror, what's scaring us isn't external; it's everything we fear seeing when we look in the mirror. |
| 287035 | Liz Braun | Toronto Sun | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-09T18:32:05.000Z | 2012-02-09 18:32:05 | Fans of the horror genre can expect to get all nostalgic about the 1970s feel to the action, which most certainly includes people going down the basement, all alone, in the dark, and that sort of thing. |
| 287036 | Grae Drake | Movies.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2012-02-07T13:00:08.000Z | 2012-02-07 13:00:08 | The Innkeepers feels more like The Puffy Chair and the 1963 film The Haunting had a non-annoying hipster baby. |
| 287037 | Bruce Diones | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2012-02-06T03:44:55.000Z | 2012-02-06 03:44:55 | West freshens up the horror genre with a distinctive, careful camera style and an ability to write with empathy and humor. |
| 287038 | Rob Vaux | Mania.com | Fresh | B+ | 2012-02-03T20:22:12.000Z | 2012-02-03 20:22:12 | It retains an eerie elegance in the last few minutes: not as arbitrary as the traditional horror twist, but duly earned by the slow development that precedes it. |
| 287039 | Josh Larsen | LarsenOnFilm | Rotten | 2/4 | 2012-02-03T16:09:12.000Z | 2012-02-03 16:09:12 | ...oddly unremarkable: less surely controlled than House of the Devil, less interesting in terms of form and, perhaps worst of all, not scary in the least. |
| 287040 | Mary F. Pols | TIME Magazine | Fresh | — | 2012-02-03T12:36:08.000Z | 2012-02-03 12:36:08 | The Innkeepers makes such youthful passivity seem nearly as treacherous as opening the cellar door. |
| 287041 | Drew McWeeny | HitFix | Fresh | — | 2012-02-03T12:35:17.000Z | 2012-02-03 12:35:17 | The film has a real voice, and it's apparent that West is getting more and more comfortable as a filmmaker. |
| 287042 | Moira MacDonald | Seattle Times | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-03T12:32:37.000Z | 2012-02-03 12:32:37 | This film has some of the usual scary cues and tense moments, but the setting, the old Yankee Pedlar inn, emerges as a more interesting character than any of the people. |
| 287043 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Fresh | — | 2012-02-03T10:50:52.000Z | 2012-02-03 10:50:52 | The meandering film starts slowly and with too many teases before delivering a few solid frights. |
| 287044 | J. R. Jones | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2012-02-03T10:41:47.000Z | 2012-02-03 10:41:47 | The place offers West plenty of odd, creaky spaces to inspect as the innkeepers' project of capturing ghostly events on video (a joking reference to the Paranormal Activity franchise) begins to bear fruit. |
| 287045 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Fresh | B | 2012-02-03T10:12:18.000Z | 2012-02-03 10:12:18 | 'The Innkeepers' offers room with a 'Boo!' |
| 287046 | Maitland McDonagh | Film Journal International | Fresh | — | 2012-02-03T08:41:20.000Z | 2012-02-03 08:41:20 | Two slackers becalmed in dead-end jobs at a rambling, supposedly haunted Connecticut inn decide to play ghost hunter in this shaggy-dog story with a sharp little sting in its tail. |
| 287047 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2012-02-03T06:54:36.000Z | 2012-02-03 06:54:36 | West attempts to pad out the film's running time by offering up one lackluster sequence after another... |
| 287050 | Dave White | Movies.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2012-02-03T05:15:23.000Z | 2012-02-03 05:15:23 | What happens next is a weird exercise in slow-burn tension that only pays off by force of directorial will. |
| 287049 | Norman Wilner | NOW Toronto | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-02-03T05:15:23.000Z | 2012-02-03 05:15:23 | It's so effective at capturing the natural rhythms of being bored at work that the supernatural stuff feels like an unnecessary intrusion. |
| 287048 | Jason Bailey | DVDTalk.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-02-03T05:15:23.000Z | 2012-02-03 05:15:23 | — |
| 287051 | James Adams | Globe and Mail | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2012-02-03T03:40:42.000Z | 2012-02-03 03:40:42 | It's just too bad, innit, that The Innkeepers isn't much of a keeper. |
| 287052 | Jeannette Catsoulis | NPR | Fresh | — | 2012-02-03T03:33:21.000Z | 2012-02-03 03:33:21 | So entertaining are the characters that you may leave the theater before realizing that the film's specters might emanate from somewhere much closer -- much, much closer -- than the haunted history of a Connecticut hotel. |
| 287053 | Robert Abele | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2012-02-03T03:31:59.000Z | 2012-02-03 03:31:59 | There's a skillful appreciation here for the kind of subjective dislocation behind the best ghost stories, and in this era of bloody-disgusting, that kind of smart ambiguity is welcome indeed. |
| 287054 | Sara Stewart | New York Post | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2012-02-03T03:16:46.000Z | 2012-02-03 03:16:46 | "The Innkeepers" is no masterpiece, but you may well leave with your nerves expertly jangled. |
| 287055 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2012-02-02T21:53:16.000Z | 2012-02-02 21:53:16 | [I]t's unclear whether West intended to make a comedy and wound up making a horror movie or that he set out to make a horror movie and wound up with a comedy. |
| 287056 | Walter Chaw | Film Freak Central | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2012-02-02T19:35:19.000Z | 2012-02-02 19:35:19 | what begins as something of a lark succeeds in generating what feels like real stakes |
| 287057 | Peter Sobczynski | eFilmCritic.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-02-02T18:16:41.000Z | 2012-02-02 18:16:41 | A hugely effective thriller that confirms Ti West as one of the more interesting new voices that the genre has seen in a long time. |
| 287058 | Marc Savlov | Austin Chronicle | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2012-02-02T17:57:16.000Z | 2012-02-02 17:57:16 | Ti West knows how to get under our skin and make us danse macabre. |
| 287059 | Alonso Duralde | TheWrap | Fresh | — | 2012-02-02T17:29:11.000Z | 2012-02-02 17:29:11 | Smart, funny and creepy, The Innkeepers does a great deal for Ti West's reputation as an up-and-coming filmmaker while simultaneously making rustic hotels seem a lot less quaint and charming. |
| 287060 | Frank Swietek | One Guy's Opinion | Fresh | B | 2012-02-02T17:25:40.000Z | 2012-02-02 17:25:40 | A satisfyingly old-fashioned haunted-house thriller, less about shocks and violence than atmosphere and dread. |
| 287061 | A.O. Scott | New York Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-02-02T15:19:31.000Z | 2012-02-02 15:19:31 | Luke and Claire are guilty, above all, of being dumb and bored. Even their interest in the ghost that may dwell in the dark corners of the Pedlar seems tepid and lacking in conviction. |
| 287062 | Wesley Morris | Boston Globe | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2012-02-02T15:03:08.000Z | 2012-02-02 15:03:08 | For too long, this movie asks us to be interested in something that rarely in the history of the service industry has been sustainably entertaining: how dull certain jobs can be. |
| 287063 | Steven Rea | Philadelphia Inquirer | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2012-02-02T14:10:00.000Z | 2012-02-02 14:10:00 | There's a lot to be said for horror that doesn't hit you over the head with shock and gore and special effects. But if you're going to go that route, you need to have more than The Innkeepers delivers. |
| 287064 | Christy Lemire | Associated Press | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-02T13:48:49.000Z | 2012-02-02 13:48:49 | The trappings may look familiar, but "The Innkeepers" is a new twist on the good, old-fashioned ghost story: It's the bored-slacker horror movie. |
| 287065 | Chris Cabin | Filmcritic.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2012-02-02T13:41:06.000Z | 2012-02-02 13:41:06 | West understands the unsettling power of silence, making the banshee-like howl of visceral terror that caps the film all the more effective |
| 287066 | Elizabeth Weitzman | New York Daily News | Rotten | 2/5 | 2012-02-02T13:40:26.000Z | 2012-02-02 13:40:26 | A well-shot but generically dull disappointment. |
| 287067 | John Gholson | Movies.com | Fresh | — | 2012-02-02T13:14:34.000Z | 2012-02-02 13:14:34 | As a ghost story, The Innkeepers isn't chock full of scares, but the few that it has are strong ones. |
| 287068 | Jamie Graham | Total Film | Fresh | — | 2012-02-02T13:13:37.000Z | 2012-02-02 13:13:37 | A traditional ghost story set very much in the here and now, The Innkeepers proves that the Spanish and the Japanese don't have a monopoly on the sub-genre while confirming writer/director Ti West as one of the major talents in horror today. |
| 287069 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-02T09:19:51.000Z | 2012-02-02 09:19:51 | Sometimes with horror movies, it's all about tone. |
| 287070 | Bill Goodykoontz | Arizona Republic | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2012-02-02T09:16:51.000Z | 2012-02-02 09:16:51 | "The Innkeepers" is a nifty little scary movie with slacker trappings, another winning deconstruction of a genre film by writer and director Ti West. |
| 287071 | Brian Tallerico | HollywoodChicago.com | Fresh | 4.5/5.0 | 2012-02-02T08:31:39.000Z | 2012-02-02 08:31:39 | One of the most effective horror movies of the last several years, a true gem of the genre that reminds a scary movie junkie like myself why I fell in love with them in the first place. |
| 287072 | Matt Pais | RedEye | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-02T04:39:25.000Z | 2012-02-02 04:39:25 | Few horror movies deliver a triple threat of strong characters, chilly mood and clean storytelling. The Innkeepers is one of those few. |
| 287073 | Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-02T03:30:55.000Z | 2012-02-02 03:30:55 | Each visit to the root cellar is an exercise in nerve-tightening; the first time we hear the overloud telephone at the front desk, it's both alarming and funny. |
| 287074 | Bruce DeMara | Toronto Star | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2012-02-02T03:17:50.000Z | 2012-02-02 03:17:50 | To his credit, West eschews the gore and mayhem of most modern horror movies in favour of slow-building atmospheric menace. |
| 287075 | Alison Willmore | AV Club | Fresh | B+ | 2012-02-02T02:53:37.000Z | 2012-02-02 02:53:37 | The Innkeepers suggests that West's greatest strengths may lie with the way he handles the meeting between normalcy and terror, and how characters cling to the former longer than is advisable... |
| 287076 | Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-02-02T02:52:14.000Z | 2012-02-02 02:52:14 | Ti West knows how to build suspense with quiet and timing. |
| 287077 | Michelle Orange | Movieline | Fresh | 7/10 | 2012-02-01T11:45:57.000Z | 2012-02-01 11:45:57 | More so than in West's previous film, which worked on its own steam right up until the end, The Innkeepers feels like a devoted horror fan's attempt to reinvent a classic genre by sheer force of quality. |
| 287078 | Edward Douglas | ComingSoon.net | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2012-02-01T10:02:19.000Z | 2012-02-01 10:02:19 | A textbook study on how to do horror in a way that offers scares and surprises at every turn. |
| 287079 | Rex Reed | Observer | Rotten | 2/4 | 2012-01-31T18:56:55.000Z | 2012-01-31 18:56:55 | I ask myself, how can any movie that calls itself a horror film also be boring at the same time? You will find the answer in The Innkeepers. |
| 287080 | Joshua Rothkopf | Time Out | Rotten | 3/5 | 2012-01-31T18:47:44.000Z | 2012-01-31 18:47:44 | A cellar sance is nerve-racking; less so are a few loud-noise gotchas that seem lifted from Hollywood's trick bag. |
| 287081 | Peg Aloi | Boston Phoenix | Rotten | 2/4 | 2012-01-31T16:41:50.000Z | 2012-01-31 16:41:50 | West only manages to wrangle a tepid horror film out of a fine opportunity to explore the territory of paranormal belief in a down-to-earth way. |
| 287082 | Nick Pinkerton | Village Voice | Fresh | — | 2012-01-31T14:59:32.000Z | 2012-01-31 14:59:32 | In a genre lately given to gluttonous effects, West is the rare minimalist. |
| 287083 | Robin Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Rotten | C | 2012-01-30T09:59:08.000Z | 2012-01-30 09:59:08 | ...makes me wonder how things would have fared with a better screenplay. |
| 287084 | Jesse Cataldo | Slant Magazine | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2012-01-30T07:10:15.000Z | 2012-01-30 07:10:15 | 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. |
| 287085 | David Edelstein | New York Magazine/Vulture | Fresh | — | 2012-01-30T04:53:46.000Z | 2012-01-30 04:53:46 | A poky but blood-freezing throwback to the gothic horror films of the seventies, when ingnues moved tremulously down dark corridors without holding digital video cameras. |
| 287086 | Perri Nemiroff | Shockya.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2012-01-29T16:46:02.000Z | 2012-01-29 16:46:02 | An unoriginal story, but West puts enough authorial expressivity on the piece to deliver something that may not feel fresh, but is still refreshingly nostalgic. |
| 287087 | Laura Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Rotten | C+ | 2012-01-27T14:23:10.000Z | 2012-01-27 14:23:10 | ...about the only really scary thing about his "The InnKeepers" is the apparent lack of towels when you need them. |
| 287088 | Lisa Schwarzbaum | Entertainment Weekly | Fresh | B+ | 2012-01-25T17:48:00.000Z | 2012-01-25 17:48:00 | The filmmaker takes his unlucky couple of innkeepers seriously: He gives them living, breathing personalities, independent of their relationship with the house ghoul. |
| 287089 | Brian Orndorf | BrianOrndorf.com | Fresh | B- | 2012-01-20T07:38:55.000Z | 2012-01-20 07:38:55 | Retains some personality and a reasonable case of the creeps. West keeps the festivities rather subdued, but those exhausted by the current state of shock cinema might find themselves appreciating this spooky breather. |
| 287090 | Ethan Alter | Television Without Pity | Fresh | — | 2012-01-11T07:06:07.000Z | 2012-01-11 07:06:07 | A diverting, low-key riff on the traditional "haunted hotel" set-up. |
| 287091 | Lucius Gore | ESplatter | Fresh | 3/4 | 2012-01-07T09:11:09.000Z | 2012-01-07 09:11:09 | 'The Innkeepers' makes up for its low budget and even lower body count with an excellent cast. |
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