If you’re looking for a slasher serial killer at a sleazy motel, The Inn is your movie. As spring breakers ease their inhibitions with booze and weed, a masked killer is on the loose, carving up their bodies and posing them in grotesque displays all over the property. Terror Films and writer/directors Sloak Losch and Kevin Beganovic’s The Inn gives us plenty of laughs to cover the outrageous gore.
Guest and Staff at the Palm Court Motel have become prey, after a serial killer
The Inn, IMDB
checks in for the night.
Centered around an investigation into recent killings at said motel, detectives, staff, and guests are constantly on the lookout for the killer nicknamed The Sandman. Bringing back hokey slasher themes from the 80s, The Inn doesn’t let up on the blood while while still somehow keeping the atmosphere light and jokey with raunchy rousing and college-aged debauchery.
Wasting no time, The Inn starts with the brutal killing of these partiers after the guys and gals get trashed at the pool and ramp up the fun in their rooms. The Sandman spares no one, ripping bodies apart and hanging up limbs and entrails all over the room — I’m talking walls dripping with blood! Of course, there is a detective looking for answers and more guests checking in and subsequently getting slaughtered. Rinse and repeat slasher theming.
I would hazard a guess saying The Inn‘s pride and joy are the kills. I mean, how could they not be? Drippy red blood spews over people and furniture alike, and people’s insides suddenly (and violently) become outsides. While we don’t get a focused longshot of any of the after-kills, we get enough in-camera to complete the picture; this is the kind of stuff a sick, deranged person would do… y’know, like The Sandman.
Speaking of, said Sandman is on its way to being a Slasher icon with a wrinkled mask and button eyes. Hulking and absolutely merciless, his kills would have no problem scaring someone in real life. We as the audience, however, get off more on watching!
But if the kills are too much, there’s always the comedy factor. The Inn is full of stoner humor, mysogynistic musings, and one DnD-obsessed store clerk that I cannot get enough of. He’s like all the memes of “everyone’s dad,” strutting around in New Balances and not realizing the joke is on him.
The Inn‘s callback to our favorite slasher era is the perfect fit for movie night with a bunch of your friends, throwing popcorn and screaming to the screen for someone to watch out. Not high-brow in the least bit, The Inn‘s general atmosphere is fun enough for a crowd, but still true to its horror roots with gore galore and a killer design.
The Inn is available to rent or purchase on Amazon Prime Video, and will be released on Chilling, Scare Network TV, Kings of Horror, Watch Movies Now, Shocks & Docs (TFR’s official AVOD YouTube channel), and many more on March 13th. For more, visit The Inn on Instagram, and Terror Films on Insta and web.
