She’s a delight to watch and brightens up the film. While the camera is often pointed at her, we get an intimate look at her. Her character is refreshing and very playful and causes enough comical situations that are funny but also a bit tragic. While Claire herself is a playful character, she is also a bit odd, she doesn’t know what she wants in life, she’s a bit jittery and clumsy, she doesn’t rely on herself and is somewhat insecure. She’s not only the main character but almost everything is shot indirectly from her perspective. And the last chapter feels somewhat separated from the rest, but if you follow the clues, it really falls into place, leading to the unavoidable ending. ‘The Last Weekend,’ ‘Madeleine O’Malley,’ and ‘A Final Guest.’ Each time a new chapter begins the film shifts slightly from tone and atmosphere. With a few strange guests, Leanne Rease-Jones a former actrice turned medium, a woman with her little son and an old man who wishes to reminiscence old memories, Claire and Luke hope for the best to finally spot Madeleine. The story goes that Madeleine O’Malley was left by the altar and that she hung herself in this hotel.īut this weekend it’s their last chance. It is allegedly haunted and Claire and Luke have spent most of their time trying to get some ghostly activity. It’s an original haunting tale that will spook you, but also conjures up some awkward comical laughs.Ĭlaire and Luke work at the Yankee Pedlar Inn hotel that is going to be demolished. It has interesting shots, pleasant storytelling at its best and fleshed out characters.Īnd even more special, this hotel the Yankee Pedlar Inn really does exist and is allegedly haunted, and is the actual place where the film was shot. It’s a sweet little ghost story with the most endearing main character that results in a playful, whimsical story that doesn’t forget to scare the audience. The Innkeepers is a supernatural ghost story that takes place in a haunted house, or to be exact, a haunted hotel.
And "Tiny Furniture" writer-director-star Lena Dunham has one very funny scene as the self-centered barista at the nearby coffee house.The Innkeepers is a delightful original spooky haunted house gem. She still has a compelling, earthy presence about her after all these years.
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Kelly McGillis co-stars as a surly former TV star who's one of the hotel's last guests, and who may know more than she initially indicates.
West depicts all of this in the leanest way possible, which evokes a retro sense of fear. And then there is the basement with its tortured history, which is simultaneously beckoning and foreboding. Naturally, as they prowl the cavernous banquet room and the empty corridors, they start seeing and hearing things. These are the unusual potential horror victims that you'd actually enjoy spending time with. They can't sleep they fight to stay awake they get drunk together. Their conversations meander over a variety of topics. The slightly nerdy, wisecracking Luke is fascinated by the inn's supernatural past and is developing a website on the subject tomboyish Claire doesn't have anything better to do and gets sucked into helping with his investigation. Sara Paxton and Pat Healy have an easy chemistry as Claire and Luke, the hotel's two remaining employees who are stuck minding the place over its final weekend.