There's a visit to a coffee shop which does nothing but give a cameo to "Tiny Furniture's" Lena Dunham and the climatic scares rest on a completely unbelievable action by Luke and a groaner of a horror cliche from Claire.
It will be absolutely no surprise to anyone what this man has planned. When an old man (George Riddle) arrives requesting a room on the third floor, Luke denies him while Claire is helpful, offering him the room with caveats. There's an unnecessarily odd relationship between them, Rease-Jones initially crusty and condescending, before she agrees to help Claire by trying to reach spirits. Claire's also thrilled beyond belief when Leanne Rease-Jones (Kelly McGillis, "Top Gun," "Stake Land"), a television star of her youth now working as a psychic healer, checks in. West gives us the Inn's spectral history when Claire relates the story of Madeline O'Malley to the young son of one of their few guests, incurring the wrath of his mom. She picks up on the piano in the lobby being played when there's no one there.
They share shifts, but it only seems to be Claire who ventures forth with Luke's EVP recording device. Paxton and Healy are able to initiate us into their shared, well worn boredom. We're always three steps ahead of our amateur sleuths and West pads the run time by sidetracking to dead ends. The location is indeed a good one, the film is well crafted and the camera loves Paxton (who, here, resembles a young Reese Witherspoon), but West unspools his ghostly tale exceedingly slowly and never builds any real suspense. Sad to say, about the only really scary thing about his "The InnKeepers" is the apparent lack of towels when you need them. And so he decided to craft a film around the location in his followup. Luke's hoping to profit from a website he's building on the subject, but it turns out to be Claire who is the more attuned to the paranormal of "The Innkeepers." When writer/director Ti West and his cast and crew were filming 2009's "The House of the Devil," they boarded at the Yankee Pedlar Inn in Torrington, CT, and West claims more weird things happened there than on their film set. The hotel is largely vacant, the third floor already emptied of its furnishings, so Luke thinks it's the ideal time to try and get proof of the inn's reputed haunting by Madeline O'Malley (Brenda Cooney, "The House of the Devil"), a woman who hung herself when her lover rejected her. The owner of the Yankee Pedlar Inn has gone fishing on its last weekend of business, leaving his young employees Claire (Sara Paxton, 2009's "The Last House on the Left") and Luke (Pat Healy, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") in charge.
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