(At the premiere screening at SXSW, the crowd settled into this vibe so much that they kept laughing with apparent enjoyment, not mockery once the scares fired up.)
Given West’s foreplay-heavy approach to horror, in which almost nothing really scary happens until the final act, viewers will appreciate the easy dynamic between two likable actors, and many will read the movie as more of a comedy than a fright flick. Claire ( Sara Paxton) and Luke ( Pat Healy) take turns manning the front desk during the century-old hotel’s closing weekend, tending to the two or three remaining guests while taking breaks to hold microphones in vacant rooms, hoping to record a ghost. Shot in the Connecticut hotel where West’s crew stayed during Devil‘s production, the film cares more about the chemistry between its two leads than the paranormal lore that fascinates them both. The result is a largely entertaining picture with too few (and late-arriving) scares to satisfy the multiplex crowd, but one that will please many die-hard genre aficionados. AUSTIN - Following his grindhouse-loving House of the Devil with a ghost film that could have been mainstream in the ‘80s, Ti West exhibits less stylistic fetishism with The Innkeeperswhile remaining solidly outside of contemporary fashions.
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