So, how could they have known how far Mary and Joseph had traveled, how wearying was their journey, or who the child was that Mary carried. They didn’t have time to waste on getting to know each one’s story. This latest, lovingly executed experiment in genre minimalism is altogether more conventional, though not necessarily the poorer for it. The tired and harried innkeepers were doing the very best with what they had, weren’t they They couldn’t take in everybody. A couple of years earlier, in Trigger Man, he took us on a spine-tingling hunting trip in the Delaware woods alongside three unlucky New Yorkers who discover that deer may not be the only prey. Innkeepers is a family owned and operated roastery in Galesburg, IL., committed to offering the finest, freshest, most flavorful and aromatic coffee. The last remaining employees - Claire and Luke - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New Englands most haunted hotels. In his 2009 breakthrough, The House of the Devil, he dropped a young babysitter into hell and his audience into a surprisingly effective take on cults and creeps.
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The greatest shock in The Innkeepers is that this old-school ghost story offers neither originality nor scares - because the young director Ti West knows full well how to do both.