The Innkeepers is the story of two employees of the Yankee Pedlar Inn, a run down hotel that is seeing its last weekend in business. Would this movie achieve the same magic? Would it remind me what I love about the genre? And better yet, would it be equally genius in how subtle its scares were? So it was with no small mount of hype that I walked into his latest movie, another horror movie by the name of The Innkeepers. And that movie singlehandedly reminded me why I love horror movies. That movie was House of the Devil, from director Ti West. I had more or less given up on being ‘into horror’ until two years ago when I sat down and put on a disc that someone had recommended.

Part of it was the rise of ‘extreme’ horror, which is fine enough but never touched me in the same way. Part of it was the rise of the post-modern slasher with Scream, that mocked the thing I grew up loving while still carrying it on with the same basic formula. Part of it was that I saw the seams more, understood the formula. As I grew up, though, horror seemed to mostly lose its appeal.

They are the genre that probably got me into movies, something I would devour endlessly as a child and young teen, up late at night nearly every weekend to watch bad horror movies on cable stations. I have a love/hate relationship with horror movies. Thus, assume there are probably more spoilers than you’d find in, say, the trailer for any given film. It's been a long time since i've seen a film this good and i recommend this to anyone who's into ghost stories.Note on reviews: I try not to spoil what I would consider major plot revelations in any of my reviews, but I do like to talk about movies in a way that would be meaningful to someone who has seen the film. Sat here on my own in the dark watching this film had me gripped from start to finish. The odd noise here and there, was that a ghost? or wasn't it? The uncertainty of whether this is real or not is what a ghost story should be all about, yes it's slow but that builds up the atmosphere, which i thought was great and there's some genuinely jumpy parts in the film. I thought the acting, directing and sound score of this movie all worked really well and that with ghost stories less is more. If you like sitting in a dark cinema/room, late at night with no distractions and you like ghost stories, then watch this film. If you've got the attention span of a goldfish and like to chat to your mates all the way through a movie. If you like Zombie movies with lots of blood and gore. If you like Slasher movies where girls who fall down a lot are being chased by a maniac with a weapon. I don't usually write reviews but after watching this film and then looking at the latest reviews posted on here i felt compelled to give this a serious review.

Trailer the innkeepers 2011