So, have you got an understanding of how much I’m a fan of Ti West? Maybe that paints my view of The Innkeepers a little too subjectively. Perhaps my favourite of all his work, The Sacrament is an obvious re-telling of the Jonestown Massacre yet using found footage and the VICE News name he makes it into so much more, something visceral and savage. Even later, after he did this movie, his segment in the first V/H/S was probably my favourite – “Second Honeymoon” – his “M is for Miscarriage” out of The ABCs of Death was a saucy piece of raw, reality driven horror. After that I secured a copy of Trigger Man and, while much different than his other films, I enjoyed it.
After that I had him on my radar, then as soon as I’d seen that out he came with The House of the Devil, and that one floored me an overall amazing aesthetic, harkening back to the best of the 1980s, this is a slow burn horror with that Satanic Panic edge. Years ago I got the chance to see The Roost, which I thought was a clever genre film and a gnarly creature feature horror movie. I love his work, even when others tell me personally they don’t like a movie of his I can’t help but find myself thinking “Why the hell not?”. Such is the case with myself and Ti West. Glass Eye Pix.Įvery time I’ve got a particular bias going into a review, one that I can recognize, I always like to take a moment to recognize that. Starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, Alison Bartlett, Jake Ryan, Brenda Cooney, George Riddle, John Speredakos, and Lena Dunham. Set in New England's Yankee Pedlar Inn (where West's cast and crew stayed in 2008 while filming House of the Devil and where, according to the press notes, nightmares were had by all), the film opens with gentle comedy and ends in expected tragedy.Įvents between unfold with the director's signature slow burn and unshakable patience, a style that will please his fans but is unlikely to hold the attention of audiences unaccustomed to splatter-free fake-outs and an emphasis on dialogue over special effects.The Innkeepers. This latest, lovingly executed experiment in genre minimalism is altogether more conventional, though not necessarily the poorer for it.
A couple of years earlier, in Trigger Man, he took us on a spine-tingling hunting trip in the Delaware woods alongside three unlucky New Yorkers who discover that deer may not be the only prey. In his 2009 breakthrough, The House of the Devil, he dropped a young babysitter into hell and his audience into a surprisingly effective take on cults and creeps. The greatest shock in The Innkeepers is that this old-school ghost story offers neither originality nor scares - because the young director Ti West knows full well how to do both.
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