The Innkeepers Review

Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!

Plot Summary: Two dorks work the final days before permanently closing an allegedly haunted inn.

Review: This film may very well be the epitome of wasted potential. The atmosphere, setting, and tone wants it to be a genuine horror movie, however, the script seemed to forget to add any scares! A big chunk of this film is just talking between the two main characters, Claire and Luke; I'd almost be fine with that, but they have nothing interesting to say. The leads believe the inn is haunted and spend each night trying to find something paranormal. Each time a scene came along that seemed to be setting up the possibility of something frightening, it was either a lame jump-scare or nothing at all. For some reason, the movie is padded with pointless background characters that break up the attempts at scary moments. I kept thinking surely these characters would serve some later purpose like some psychic conveniently staying there (I mean come on!), but nope. We finally come to learn that Luke made up all the stories about the inn being haunted as a way to flirt with Claire (there is zero shock to this) only for another contrivance to occur in which some guy dies that night. Some how, along the way, Claire has convinced herself so much the inn is haunted that she ends up seeing a ghost and dying of fright...or does she? The movie never really explains much and considering how lame it is, we should have had some damn answers! The only reason I even rated this film as average was because of one truly frightening moment that made you think this movie would be awesome, but alas it never maintained even a tenth of that intensity. In fact, if you took that scene away, I would say this film drops to the 4/10 realm because it really is THAT boring. Save yourself the trouble as this is beyond an easy pass, and you can get what few scary scenes there were from the trailer. I can't believe they went this route with the film, but it definitely sucked.

Notable Moment: The only scary part which is when Claire wakes up with the ghost in her bed.

Final Rating: 5/10