West continues to tread a delightful path between winking dread and the real kind, but his pacing's off in the build-up, partly because of the many, many opportunities Paxton has to flee out the front door.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2012

The movie never entirely flatlines, and there are some funny touches, but it annoyingly fails to do anything with the kooky situation it elaborately establishes, and there are no real shocks or laughs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2012

Hardcore horror heads may scorn its snail pace and shaggy-dog sweetness, but for discerning viewers, 'The Innkeepers' is a slow-burning charmer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2012

Among the current crop of ghost stories, this is an outstanding effort. Ti West is shaping up as an authentic Master Of Horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2012

But the real star here is the Yankee Peddler, the New England landmark showing itself off to perfection.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 10, 2012

Fans of the horror genre can expect to get all nostalgic about the 1970s feel to the action, which most certainly includes people going down the basement, all alone, in the dark, and that sort of thing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2012

West freshens up the horror genre with a distinctive, careful camera style and an ability to write with empathy and humor.

| Feb 6, 2012

The Innkeepers makes such youthful passivity seem nearly as treacherous as opening the cellar door.

| Feb 3, 2012

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2012

The place offers West plenty of odd, creaky spaces to inspect as the innkeepers' project of capturing ghostly events on video (a joking reference to the Paranormal Activity franchise) begins to bear fruit.

| Feb 3, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2012

It's just too bad, innit, that The Innkeepers isn't much of a keeper.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2012

So entertaining are the characters that you may leave the theater before realizing that the film's specters might emanate from somewhere much closer -- much, much closer -- than the haunted history of a Connecticut hotel.

| Feb 3, 2012

There's a skillful appreciation here for the kind of subjective dislocation behind the best ghost stories, and in this era of bloody-disgusting, that kind of smart ambiguity is welcome indeed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2012

"The Innkeepers" is no masterpiece, but you may well leave with your nerves expertly jangled.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2012

Up until near the end ... you could mistake it for a low-key haunted-house comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2012

Ti West knows how to get under our skin and make us danse macabre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2012

Smart, funny and creepy, The Innkeepers does a great deal for Ti West's reputation as an up-and-coming filmmaker while simultaneously making rustic hotels seem a lot less quaint and charming.

| Feb 2, 2012

Luke and Claire are guilty, above all, of being dumb and bored. Even their interest in the ghost that may dwell in the dark corners of the Pedlar seems tepid and lacking in conviction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2012