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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 02 Feb 2012

Few horror movies deliver a triple threat of strong characters, chilly mood and clean storytelling. The Innkeepers is one of those few…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 Feb 2012

Will The Innkeepers be enough for the young folk…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 Feb 2012

To his credit, West eschews the gore and mayhem of most modern horror movies in favour of slow-building atmospheric menace…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 Feb 2012

The two amateur ghost-hunters hope to document evidence of the spirit of Madeline O'Malley in their last days of employment, though they get…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Feb 2012

Ghost movies like this, depending on imagination and craft, are much more entertaining than movies that scare you by throwing a cat at the camera…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 01 Feb 2012

Without a strong story to dance with, all of those fabulous tracking shots, lovingly uncanny art direction details and flickering shafts of…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Feb 2012

A textbook study on how to do horror in a way that offers scares and surprises at every turn…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 31 Jan 2012

The Innkeepers, a desultory indie-prod poorly written and lamely directed by Ti West, and filmed on the cheap at the actual location, is a…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 31 Jan 2012

West holds your interest with material that should feel like a rip-off of The Shining…

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By Peg Aloi (89) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 31 Jan 2012

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…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Jan 2012

It's this youthful denial of vulnerability that makes West's slow-sidling haunted-house movies work…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jan 2012

Winding up the tension to an almost stubborn degree, Ti West forestalls the inevitable disappointment of its release, a blow that's further…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 30 Jan 2012

A poky but blood-freezing throwback to the gothic horror films of the seventies, when ingénues moved tremulously down dark corridors without…

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By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Jan 2012

Slow-burning buildup, lack of explicit mayhem and overall low-tech approach may strike cineastes as amusingly quaint…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 29 Jan 2012

West, who demonstrated a penchant for extensive build-ups in The House of the Devil and Trigger Man, continually makes it unclear if the inn…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 27 Jan 2012

about the only really scary thing about his The InnKeepers is the apparent lack of towels when you need them…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Jan 2012

Wide-eyed Sara Paxton and hipster-bespectacled Pat Healy play the joint's only two employees, working each other into a lather of what turns…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 20 Jan 2012

Retains some personality and a reasonable case of the creeps…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Horror.com (214) on 17 Jan 2012

Director Ti West is carving quite a niche for himself by exploring horror genres popularized by others by stripping them down to the varnish…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 06 Jan 2012

With slow, deliberate pacing, seemingly endless amounts of paranormal prattle and few spooky scenes, it's quite tedious…

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