Review – The Innkeepers

Finally an indie horror movie made by people who know and care about what they’re doing. Two desk clerks pass the last weekend before their hotel closes with half-assed attempts to look for ghosts. Needless to say, they end up finding something. The characters are believable, helped in no small part by good writing and good acting. But the best part was the scares. Ghostly appearances were carefully managed to avoid overuse and maintain the what-if-this-was-real feel. In many ways this is the movie The Shining should have been. Worth seeing