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The innkeepers kelly mcgillis4/1/2024 This is at heart an old-fashioned ghost story, made the more piquant by Paxton’s sympathetic, funny, vulnerable lead performance. The film may be too unsensational for the explicit horror crowd, but stands a chance of connecting with the audience for ghost stories who have made hits of Paranormal Activity and Insidious. Using the real-life Yankee Pedlar Inn in Torrington, Connecticut, as a setting, it’s an entry in the ‘haunted hotel’ stakes which has included Stephen King-derived shockers The Shining and 1408 and benefits greatly from the prosaic creepiness of the location, which is located on an ordinary street with a coffee shop round the corner rather than in the more traditional middle-of-nowhere. Like director/writer/editor Ti West’s earlier The House Of The Devil, this is a low-key, slow-burning supernatural tale in which a vivid, sympathetic female protagonist is progressively menaced in a distinctive locale.
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