The Innkeepers: Critic Reviews

65%

MovieWeb: 3 reviews

79%

Rotten Tomatoes: 109 reviews

« previous
1
2
3
...
next »
«
»

Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

The filmmaker takes his unlucky couple of innkeepers seriously: He gives them living, breathing personalities, independent of their relationship with the house ghoul.
Full Review » 1 year ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Luke and Claire are guilty, above all, of being dumb and bored. Even their interest in the ghost that may dwell in the dark corners of the Pedlar seems tepid and lacking in conviction.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

The movie never entirely flatlines, and there are some funny touches, but it annoyingly fails to do anything with the kooky situation it elaborately establishes, and there are no real shocks or laughs.
Full Review » 11 months ago
John DeFore Washington Post (Top Critic)

50

Up until near the end ... you could mistake it for a low-key haunted-house comedy.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

38

For too long, this movie asks us to be interested in something that rarely in the history of the service industry has been sustainably entertaining: how dull certain jobs can be.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Nick Pinkerton Village Voice (Top Critic)

In a genre lately given to gluttonous effects, West is the rare minimalist.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

40

A well-shot but generically dull disappointment.
Full Review » 1 year ago
William Goss MSN Movies (Top Critic)

A decidedly old-fashioned haunted-house movie that sidesteps boredom with banter.
Full Review » 2 years ago
David Edelstein New York Magazine (Top Critic)

A poky but blood-freezing throwback to the gothic horror films of the seventies, when ingenues moved tremulously down dark corridors without holding digital video cameras.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Bruce Diones New Yorker (Top Critic)

West freshens up the horror genre with a distinctive, careful camera style and an ability to write with empathy and humor.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Ti West knows how to build suspense with quiet and timing.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

Each visit to the root cellar is an exercise in nerve-tightening; the first time we hear the overloud telephone at the front desk, it's both alarming and funny.
Full Review » 1 year ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

The place offers West plenty of odd, creaky spaces to inspect as the innkeepers' project of capturing ghostly events on video (a joking reference to the Paranormal Activity franchise) begins to bear fruit.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

There's a lot to be said for horror that doesn't hit you over the head with shock and gore and special effects. But if you're going to go that route, you need to have more than The Innkeepers delivers.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

70

"The Innkeepers" is a nifty little scary movie with slacker trappings, another winning deconstruction of a genre film by writer and director Ti West.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

50

I ask myself, how can any movie that calls itself a horror film also be boring at the same time? You will find the answer in The Innkeepers.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

West and lenser Eliot Rockett deserve considerable credit for being able to generate suspense and occasionally spring scares without relying on familiar haunted-house atmospherics.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Sara Stewart New York Post (Top Critic)

63

"The Innkeepers" is no masterpiece, but you may well leave with your nerves expertly jangled.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Bruce Demara Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

To his credit, West eschews the gore and mayhem of most modern horror movies in favour of slow-building atmospheric menace.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Eric Kohn indieWIRE (Top Critic)

75

[An] offbeat ghost story.
Full Review » 2 years ago
James Adams Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

It's just too bad, innit, that The Innkeepers isn't much of a keeper.
Full Review » 1 year ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

Sometimes with horror movies, it's all about tone.
Full Review » 1 year ago
John DeFore Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

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.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

75

The trappings may look familiar, but "The Innkeepers" is a new twist on the good, old-fashioned ghost story: It's the bored-slacker horror movie.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Mary F. Pols TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

The Innkeepers makes such youthful passivity seem nearly as treacherous as opening the cellar door.
Full Review » 1 year ago