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Looking back I have to admire the ambition it took for FRASIER’s producers to attempt this show (an homage to Blake Edwards, if the script book is to be believed. For a brief period it looks like they may get out of this okay, but we know better. It is also inevitably doomed, as arguments over soufflé service lead to a mass defection of the kitchen staff, forcing Frasier, Niles, and Daphne to handle the cooking while Roz plays waitress. The rechristened "Les Fléres Hereux" is bright, glamorous, and packed to the rafters on opening night. A farewell visit to the old place finds her a swiftly-crumbling ruin with grim lighting and a decrepit skeleton crew of a staff Frasier and Niles decide they can turn this thing around, and buy the restaurant. Gil Chesterton gets things rolling by letting Frasier know via his show that Orcini’s, an ancient and respected restaurant where the Crane boys went as kids many times, is closing down. It all works so well that you never stop to consider how it couldn’t. The premise is novel but just close enough to believable, the humor builds from understated to insane, and it’s easily the most ambitious thing the show has yet undertaken from a technical perspective. This is an episode almost everyone remembers, and while the fact that it’s easily summed up as the one where Frasier and Niles open a restaurant is obviously part of that, it’s plain and simply one of their most memorable shows. (Beat) Me auntie had a little tea room.Īn absolute classic, “The Innkeepers” takes FRASIER’s newly developed farcical element to magnificent extremes. If you don’t scald yourself or lop off your finger with a clever, you spend your whole time gagging at grease fires, killing rats, and brawling with labor racketeers. It’s one of the scariest, and best, horror films of recent years.Daphne: Owning a restaurant is hard work.
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Wincingly frightening, sad and satisfying, at its heartbreaking conclusion The Innkeepers treads a carefully ambiguous path which resonates long after the creepy final coda. But unlike House, The Innkeepers ’ pay-off completely delivers. Just like in The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers takes its time to build, cranking up the tension as your sympathy for Claire and Luke deepens. Set in the modern day, steeped in Victoriana, with an unhurried, finely crafted early-’80s feel, The Innkeepers is both old and new, fresh and gorgeously nostalgic.
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The location is a gift, a kitsch mix of chintz and glitz which suits West’s storytelling perfectly. If there’s an over-reliance on false scares in the first half, it’s rectified by the final act, as playful ghost games turn menacing. It’s largely a two-hander with interludes from the eclectic guests – most notably an unselfconscious turn from Top Gun icon Kelly McGillis as washed-up actress turned spiritualist Leanne Rease-Jones. Miles from her Last House On The Left / Shark Night scream-queen persona, Paxton is goofy and pixieish, while Healy’s a loveable nerd. They also dick around with EVP equipment, pretending to be ghost hunters and freaking themselves out with tales of spook-in- residence Madeleine Mallory, ‘The widow of the Pedlar’, said to roam the halls. Set and shot in The Yankee Pedlar inn – a real hotel in Connecticut locals believe is actually haunted – it follows Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), 20-something, college-drop-out would-be paranormal investigators charged with manning the front desk and taking care of the remaining guests before the hotel shuts down for good.įirst and foremost a character piece, it hangs out with Luke and Claire as they kill time chatting, drinking and laughing at the annoying local barista (an excellent cameo from next-big-thing Lena Dunham).
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OK, Ti West’s latest chiller, following his excellent satanic-panic period piece The House Of The Devil, isn’t a cheesy chick flick, but behind the nerve-shredding (and it is terrifying) The Innkeepers is an indie slacker-com at heart.