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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The Innkeepers turned out to be a very average ghost story. I enjoyed it most of the way through, despite the slow build. The main characters were interesting enough, and the old creepy building made for a good setting. My biggest problem is how everything was resolved. The main character gets trapped in a basement, and we see the ghost coming towards her. In the next scene, we see that the girl is dead. Now, it was left somewhat open how she died, as the movie gives a clue that the girl was without her inhaler. But if you take it for face value, it looks like the ghost got her. It's never explained why the ghost might be harmful or why it would single out the girl. So that's pretty much it. Slow build, sudden ending. Fine most of the way through.

I had high hopes going in, the box has it listed 4 stars, its rated high on RT, Rogerebert.com gave it a 3/4. It really shows the disconnect between audiences and critics however. The movie is well put together in most aspects, the acting is strong and at times it can be quite tense. But the plot is broken, there are two different movies going on and they are stuck together by tape.The first half is very bubbly and charming, it goes a great length in creating an attachment to the characters. This could have been a very entertaining comedy as two hotel clerks talk about a supposed ghost while they're underlying attraction to each other grows stronger. Then halfway through, we are confirmed that there is a ghost and the tone shifts completely. And the shift is very jarring, just BAM, here is the ghost, don't go in the basement. From here on, there are no more jokes and everyone sobers up. The lack of focus early on has major ramifications later on that hinder it from really taking off as a horror movie.The second half is done well but it is still not quite fleshed out. We are never given quite enough information on the ghost to really discern anything about her. We are led to believe in the beginning that she was someone that committed suicide when her fiancé stood her up on their wedding day but then I got the impression that a guest that comes to the hotel was her husband. His suicide note speaks of his wife, he is emotionally attached to the room she died in,and his spirit seems to assist her but that contradicts the story we were told. There is no need for motivation in ghost stories but there needs to be at least some sort of explanation what happened. It gives the audience some sort of reasoning, something to grasp onto and make them believe the character has some sort of chance even if it is just to be taken away.What gets me the worse about the story is the implication that there are three benefactor spirits. Its mentioned by the actress that they died in some tragedy and were warning Claire to stay out of the basement. The problem is, when? They were never brought up before nor heard from again by a character that plays a pivotal role for Claire's character. There isn't even any ghostly evidence of their existence, like they were cut from the script and the director forgot to fix the one line. It could be that the actress is trying to frame her warning, but why? Why not just say it was the ghost? Why mention some vague tragedy that no one seems aware of? And why 3? If she is framing her advice, it's like a person with a bag on their head trying to prove they aren't crazy by trading their paper bag for plastic.The ending has impact because Claire was a likable character but her death really has no build. Its quite obvious what is going to come, she locks the bilco door and seals her own fate, but there was no twists and turns that made it seem she was going to escape. The lack of catharsis makes for a forgettable finale, certainly not one that deserves such a high score elsewhere.

For a movie that is an hour and thirty five minutes not much is going on, there is way to little in the story to grab on, you have to wait for the last thirty minutes to get the horror part of the movie going...I'm not kidding I wish I was but I'm not. The other part of the movie introduces our main characters Sara Paxton is probably the only good thing in this movie, she is so underrated as an actress she has so much potential that I know she will have her shot soon, besides her there's not much to say about the other characters anything interesting anyway. The ghost in the movie is not really there we see so few of it and with good reason...it's not scary at all, like I said it takes the last 30 minutes to kick that part going in the meantime your left with two staff members bored as hell trying to kill time looking for said ghost. Ti West made the house of the devil a movie that had the same effect on me that I did this one, wastes to much on characters( that are barley interesting...most of the time) an so little in the horror aspect so the mood gets lost and one feels cheated, I like a slow burn horror movie the anticipation of what is coming drives you and when it's done well you know the climax was worth it, but this movie makes it such a waist and the payoff is not scary. What I can say good about it was Sara Paxton, the hotel and the camera work were phenomenal and that's about it If you watch the trailer it will misguide you into thinking of a way better movie than what you will get.

It's Friday night. You are bored scrolling through "Paranormal Activity"-like trailers looking for a horror film, something to watch that is a little bit more original than the hundreds of live action films and suddenly you come across this trailer. A horror story in a Hotel. A few ugly and scary characters in it. A piano playing on its own... done. You have a winner. Well, no, I assure you don't. This isn't a Horror film, it's a comedy-horror film wannabee that has all the ingredients: the creepy hotel, the ghost legend, the evp mic, the blonde girl and the nerd sidekick. Let's add a medium, a basement, some rain and BOOM: horror film. To me, that's how the writer came with the plot line. The script is terrible, there is absolutely no tension or fear whatsoever. Halfway through the film you'll find yourself bored, scrolling through other trailers regretting the decision of watching this movie. This is based on a true experience. Hope it's helpful. Shoutout to the editor for the trailer: made me fell.