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Sadly Over-hyped

Memorable, crazy movie

As Good As It Gets

I can see why some people like this movie and why some people don't. I'm not here to slam either group, I'm just here to give my personal opinion and try to let people know what they're in for if they decide to give this a chance.There ARE unexplained happenings in the movie and some decent scares, but frankly, throughout most of the movie you will be watching two terrible hotel employees while one avoids doing his job and is an unapologetic jerk, and the other goes into guests rooms and annoys them. Later, they both get half drunk and make a bunch of noise, putting on a skit of sorts that really takes the wind out of the middle of the movie.Throughout the movie, tension is built, then collapses with inane banter, jump scares, or hysteria. It's kind of like driving with someone who hits the gas, then the brake, then the gas, then the brake - and it's about as annoying.Here's the meat of the story, with spoilers:Kelly McGillis plays a once-famous actress named Leanne who is now a sort of psychic. She warns the girl working at the hotel not to go in the basement.The girl goes in the basement. She gets freaked out, then goes down again with the guy who works with her and a recorder while they're half drunk. She freaks him out by calling to the spirit of the woman supposedly haunting the place and then pointing out that there's a draft. The guy gets so scared that he runs out of the hotel and drives off, leaving her alone. Now she's scared, too. She goes and wakes up Leanne because she's scared and doesn't know what to do. They go back down into the basement, and suddenly Leanne senses danger and says they must leave immediately. The girl suddenly remember that there's a guy who checked in and insisted on staying in a room on the third floor and decides to warn him, too. She lets herself in his room and finds him dead and bloody from suicide in the tub. Now she's really freaked out. Is that why she completely forgot about the other 2 guests she had in the hotel? We never find out. The guy comes back and apologizes for leaving the girl, then leaves her again to go get Leanne. The girl hears noises that lead her to the basement again, and even though she desperately wants to leave the hotel and no on is stopping her, she goes back down into the basement. Because she heard a noise. Really?Most of this happens in roughly the last fifteen minutes of the movie.We do see ghosts, but they're always from the girl's point of view, and we're never sure if she's really seeing them or if she's imagining it all. There are some other weird things that happen, but nothing conclusive enough to be as scary for the audience as it is for the characters, and I found myself so unsympathetic towards them that I didn't care to put myself in their shoes and didn't really care about what happened to them, either.Major major spoiler:I only want to give the ending away because of how unsatisfying it is and because it's not a "twist" ending, but it is what the whole movie is building up to: The girl never comes out of the basement alive. She dies, but we don't know whether it was because of a fall, or because of a deadly asthma attack, if it was the "ghosts," or if she just scared herself to death. In the very last scene, we see a door slam by itself. Oooh, spooky. But satisfying? NO.The ending might have been okay if the ride leading up to it had been more effective and entertaining. Again, my opinion.

The few times I've felt driven to add a review to IMDb it's been because either the film is obscure or forgotten, or - as in this case, I think - the reviewers who've been most prolific and have set the tone here have clearly not been sympathetic to the the more slow and compelling type of ghost story.And The Innkeepers is slow - but compelling. It's also one of the more frightening films to be made in recent years. Forget jump-scares, CGI ghosts, slashers, repetitive franchise sequels. If that's what you want, look elsewhere. Ti West is an independent movie director, and indie cinema has brought us some seriously interesting films just lately. Monsters, Spring, Coherence, The Babadook, to name a few. The Innkeepers is one of those.OK, I'll get off the soap-box.The Innkeepers is probably not a perfect movie, but it's a good one, and there was at least one point where I felt that marvelous and rarely-felt lurch of heart-stopping horror. I just hope you'll have the patience to experience it for yourself.I also hope IMDb will change the incredibly negative first-page review and replace it with one that's more favourable - there are plenty of sympathetic reviews here to choose from. Only time can change the rating, but IMDb can (and does) influence the DVD-buying public, and in a world that can't wait, that first page counts for a lot.

I will not necessarily eviscerate this trainwreck. The two leads were actually very good and likable. Especially the girl. Some very good camera work.But the script was a nothing. Sure, horror has a good amount of filler 'til the exciting parts. I never understood that and never understood how audiences consistently sat through that. I guess I have to make that assertion from experience, to my stupidity.But it's mostly filler. Just a day in the life nonsense drawn out to the extreme. For a solid hour. Meaningless.Then the last half hour, which has about 10 minutes of substance maximum, is so poorly directed, shot and edited. There's no rhyme or reason. Other horror movies attempt to explain something about what's going on.But this? Screw that! It's just by happenstance that the girl only sees the ghost woman for no reason during the last night of the hotel's operation. And the suicide of the old man has no relevance other than a desperate grope for any sort of substance.And why does the guy spend all that energy and lies to maintain a website of paranormal activity AND have video showing such but doesn't believe it at all? Probably to extend the relationship with the girl, but that was never really addressed in that specific circumstance.Several times in the basement the director/editor kills any sort of fright. The girl kicks a can down the steps but no coverage of her foot hitting the can. We clearly see the dead guy behind her seconds before her being startled. (His appearance is apparently blamed on her head wound in the Epilogue, but she had no head wound just before that.)After she falls, there is no coverage of the dead guy at the top of the stairs. There is no coverage of her losing the atomizer, which is shown later. There is no shock value to seeing the ghost woman.Then the Epilogue. Terrible cut when the cop looks at the girl's face on the gurney. Apparently the psychic knew it was going to happen? Didn't seem consistent with her appearances in the film up to that point. And finally they all have to go down to the station to answer questions. But the cop leads the psychic to the cop car. Where was the guy? Took his own car?Ty West, the director/writer/editor has made several films. Good for you, kid. But this one was so bad that I specifically have to make a point of not seeing any of his other attempts.

Unfortunately Ti West's The Innkeepers just didn't do it for me. It was too slow and melodramatic, uneventful and boring, but above all, it's story line was the least bit entertaining. Nothing really happens for the entire movie, and whilst you do grow to like some aspects about the two main protagonists, the whole film is a complete waste of time. The elements of the story are clichéd and riddled with problems, and for a horror movie, it is not the least bit scary.A poor production from a filmmaker I very much enjoy. The House of the Devil is an example of excellent horror homage, but the Innkeepers just feels like a stroll through the park instead of a dark haunted hotel with engaging twists and an original plot and an entertaining base.