After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees – Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)- are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
THE INNKEEPERS will be playing at this year’s LA FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, June 19, 9:50 p.m., Regal 10/LA LIVE*
*screening will be followed by a Q&A with Ti West, Sara Paxton and Pat Healy
Wednesday, June 22, 7:00 p.m., Downtown Independent
Purchase your tickets now! 1.866.FilmFest or visit www.LAFilmFest.com
The Innkeepers (USA, 2011, 102 mins)
Directed By: Ti West
Executive Producers: Badie Ali, Hamza Ali, Malik B. Ali , Greg Newman
Producers: Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden,Peter Phok, Ti West
Screenwriter: Ti West
Cinematographer: Eliot Rockett
Editor: Ti West
Cast: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis
Music: Jeff Grace
Wonderfully toying with audience expectations, writer-director Ti West takes a slowburn approach to this ghostly blend of humor, suspense and scares. Quietly building the anticipation of frights to come, West and his cast disarm the audience with casual jokes and friendly banter even as the elements of the terrifying climax are put into place.
During the final working weekend of a supposedly haunted New England inn, two lackadaisical desk clerks-cum-ghost hunters, armed with only a portable cassette deck and a couple of flashlights, search for proof of the supernatural. Of course, the problem is sometimes the thing you’re looking for finds you first.
