The Innkeepers
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Let Me Out: Ti West on The Innkeepers
The problem with so many horror films today is that you feel like you’ve seen them before. I’m not talking about their plots or characters because ghosts, vampires and serial killers have been and will be dramatized again and again. No, I’m talking about the feeling of watching these films, the internal clock that prepares you for this jolt by minute three, that one by minute 10 and a final shocker just before, or after, the closing credits. Among the many excellent qualities of writer-director Ti West’s filmmaking is its refusal to be straitjacketed by the more programmatic notions of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 10, 2012 -
DECEMBER VOD CALENDAR
Now on our VOD calendar are titles available for the month of December. Some highlights: Ti West‘s latest horror The Innkeepers; critically acclaimed films The Help, Warrior and The Debt; microbudgets The Off Hours and Edward Burns‘ Newlyweds; and if you haven’t seen it yet (or want to see it again) Woody Allen‘s love letter to the City of Lights, Midnight in Paris hits VOD later this month. For titles from previous months go to our VOD Calendar homepage.
by Jason Guerrasio on Dec 1, 2011 -
SXSW SNAPS, PART TWO
The Innkeepers‘ star Sara Paxton, glam at the Driskill Hotel premiere afterparty. In Ti West’s excellent horror picture, wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans she plays a tomboyish hotel clerk and amateur ghost hunter. A fantastic idea — as part of its Film Design Awards, SXSW hosts a poster design competition, displaying all the entries in lobby gallery. Myth of the American Sleepover producer Adele Romanski and Visit Films sales agent Ryan Kampe at the Kodak Filmmaker’s Brunch. Forget barbecue. Grilled cheese is the food of Austin. The sandwich here is from The Big Cheese, inside the convention hall. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 15, 2011
