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.
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.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
3 Feb 2012
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The Innkeepers makes such youthful passivity seem nearly as treacherous as opening the cellar door.
– Mary F. Pols,
TIME Magazine,
3 Feb 2012
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West freshens up the horror genre with a distinctive, careful camera style and an ability to write with empathy and humor.
– Bruce Diones,
New Yorker,
6 Feb 2012
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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.
– Ian Buckwalter,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb 2012
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Hardcore horror heads may scorn its snail pace and shaggy-dog sweetness, but for discerning viewers, 'The Innkeepers' is a slow-burning charmer.