Who doesn't love a good ghost story? From director Ti West (The House of the Devil) comes THE INNKEEPERS. Set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after over a century of service. Believed by many to be one of New England’s “most haunted hotels,” the last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)- are determined to uncover proof before it shuts down for good. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
The movie opens next Friday, February 3rd but we have a handful of tickets to give away to the preview screening on Monday, at E Street at 7:30pm. Wheeee.
To enter to win, leave us a comment telling us what your favorite movie ghost story of all time is. We'll notify the winners by COB tomorrow. COOL? Cool.
Previously in Giveaway:
- 2/17: Movie Ticket Giveaway: WANDERLUST
- 2/17: Giveaway: "21 Jump Street" Preview Screening
- 2/13: Ticket Giveaway: The Black Lillies @ The Hamilton
- 2/9: Woolly Mammoth's "Civilization Smackdown" + a Giveaway
- 2/8: Ticket Giveaway: Cate Le Bon @ DC9
- 2/7: Movie Ticket Giveaway: TITANIC in 3D!
- 2/6: Ticket Giveaway: Yasmin Levy @ Strathmore
- 2/3: Movie Ticket Giveaway: The Vow
- 2/1: Ticket Giveaway: Theophilus London @ 9:30 Club
- 1/31: Super Early Ticket Giveaway: Mastodon @ Fillmore Silver Spring
God loves a cheerful giver.
"Los Otros" Spanish films always have a way of being dually classic and innovative.
Best movie ghost story imho is the "not-ghost" story of the young boy with the shotgun in a background window of three men and a baby. Apparently the boy isn't a ghost at all, its a cardboard cutout from a scene that ended up on the cutting room floor meaning that as it turns out the real ghost story here is Steve Guttenberg's career for the last twenty years....
Casper
The original Ghostbusters and there battle with Zuul still holds up 28 years later.
Remember the book "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"? I was OBSESSED! My favorite was "The Red Spot" where the growing pimple on the girls face turned out to be baby spiders growing under her skin. Still terrifies me today!
181242 @Todd: Easy, "GHOST" the bestest
tale of two sisters
The family from, "The Others." MIND-BOGGLING!!!
Nearly everyone I talk to about this claims to not like horror movies. How is it possible?? It's too hard for me to pick a favorite but I'm going to go with The Descent, just for it's claustrophobic creepy feeling, lurking monsters and personal drama all mixed into one awesome bloody movie.
And of course the classics The Exorcist and Halloween will always scare the hell out of me.
Not sure if she technically qualifies as a ghost, but the little (dead) girl from "The Ring" (US version) scared the beejesus out of me!
I think my favorite is still The Sixth Sense. Now it's old news, but my mind was BLOWN back in the day. But the scariest is definitely the original One Missed Call.
Ghost Story - ghost at his most erotic.
I know it would be stupid but the first paranormal activity really scared me. Prob because the entrance to the attic is in my room. Other than that, Ghost Adventures scares me sometimes.
The Blair Witch Project--local and awesome.
The dead people in the Sixth Sense.
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The Shining (Kubrick's version), most definitely.
The Thing by John Carpenter is still the greatest. It has claustrophobia, paranoia, and incredibly terrifying soundtrack, and sexy beards.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Ghost? Dream-killer? The beauty lies in the unknown, yeah? (The same reason internet dating is so popular...)
The Shining, duh
Ghost Ship!