In Theaters: February 3rd, 2012
Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes (101 minutes)
Rated R for some bloody images and language.
Offer
No
Originality
Nor
Scares!
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire and Luke - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage "ghost hunters" begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel's long unexplained history.
It's just too bad, innit, that The Innkeepers isn't much of a keeper.
Critic Score: 2/5
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.
Critic Score: 3/5