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SPOOKY POSTER GIVEAWAY

As consolation for your mum and her bassist fuckbuddy stealing your Adderall and running off to Austin this weekend, we're pitting you guys in a bloody competition for some SXSW swag. Saturday is the world premiere of The Innkeepers, the new horror movie from writer/director Ti West. You may recall that West's previous chiller, The House of the Devil, was one of the better genre efforts of its decade, that decade being the aughts or its tonal obsession, the VHS-renting, innocent babysitter-pining and slaying 80s. It was also a transfixing, stylish low-budget corrective to the relentless horror remakes shat out by the pigheaded peons at Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes. For The Innkeepers, last year West brought together much of his Devil crew and made them all agree to live and eat for the shoot's duration inside Connecticut's storied, creaky Yankee Pedlar Inn. I should mention that most of the film is set inside this hotel, following two titular employees (actors Sara Paxton and Pat Healy) as they pull Schlitz-abetted graveyard shifts in the establishment's final days. My ex-girlfriend (note: she mysteriously vanished afterward) and I were invited to spend two days and a night on the shoot, and I've included a few pics from the visit below. Production designer Jade Healy really outdid herself, envisioning a budget Overlook Hotel for babes, beard-and-plaid types, and piano-playing entities.

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We have five spanking new posters for The Innkeepers, as nicely composed by The Dude Designs and signed by West and the cast. The first five people to email the correct answer to the following question to vice@viceland.com win.

Inside the house in 2009's The House of the Devil what are the last words said by Samantha's friend?

West's team was also nice enough to let us debut a separate poster for the film that leans old school Clue. Refreshing to see a modern horror director who see's his/her visions down through the classy marketing. A 2011 release date for The Innkeepers is TBA. For updates, follow Ti West on Twitter. For SXSW dates, click here.