The American and The House of the Devil are examples of “slow burn” films. It’s a gradual build up of events that will reach it’s peak and then explode…or something similar. There’s a term that is starting to get overused and that term is: Slow Burn. The second time I sat down to watch the film on Blu-ray, I kept checking the clock, because it dragged and dragged. When I first watched the film, I kept checking the clock, because it dragged and dragged.
See, it wouldn’t have been so bad if the actors had better written material to work off, or if they were better actors altogether. And that’s about it.įor more than an hour we have to sit there and listen to these two potato heads go on and on about their boring and lame existences. After she sees what’s online strange things begin happening at the inn. Luke is an amateur “ghost hunter” and gets Sara all riled up by asking her if she would help him with his website and whatnot. They’re working around clock in rotating shifts, but have ample time to hang out and talk about some of the most mundane crap ever. Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) are the last two employees that will oversee the official closure of the inn on this fateful weekend. The Innkeepers is the story of The Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is shutting its doors for good. Maybe that will sweeten the deal a bit more? Read on and find out. The question still remains: Did I like the film before AND after? The Blu-ray contains a couple of extras that the bare-bones VOD version did not. Spooky New England hotels, ghosts, demons, people crapping themselves in hotels where ghosts and demons live? Hell yeah! I should also make mention that I had already seen the film on VOD a couple of months (or weeks) before the Blu-ray, so I already knew what I was getting myself into. I’d been really interested in seeing The Innkeepers when I heard about the project and it being Ti West’s follow up to the excellent The House of the Devil.