So, Ti West is a certifiable genius.
It takes a real certain mind to make a genuinely scary movie. West's House of the Devil proved he had the writing chops and love of genre to pull it off, and, coupled with his superb directorial ability helped no doubt by House of the Devil's gimmick, created a modern classic. The Innkeepers removes the ability to rely on nostalgia and gimmick while also adding in a certain humor, a recipe for disaster for your average director/writer/editor.
Mr. West is no average auteur.
With The Innkeepers, Ti West manages to make a genuinely funny movie with the characterization and the scares to back it up. The film very much feels like a modernization of mid-20th century genre filmmaking techniques. You don't see the villain in the first act and really you get little more than the vague impression that not everything is as it seems until the third, allowing the film to devote itself to developing the protagonist, Claire. Claire hits all the buttons for a good horror protagonist and Sara Paxton's portrayal of her does her credit.
The film is very, very cool and proves that Ti West can stand on his own merits without the coat of paint that is 80s pastiche. The Innkeepers is a veritable classic.
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