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Even if the ghost never shows up, the movie could get by as a weird romance between these characters, who play running jokes on each other, and react badly when others enter the bubble of their little world.

This gives the funny, fragile, appealing Claire (Sara Paxton, turning on talents taken for granted by the makers of the Last House On The Left remake and Shark Night) a sidekick in slackery, droll, buttoned-down net-nerd Luke (Pat Healy). The House Of The Devil was a lady-in-peril film which kept its heroine alone on screen in an old, dark house for practically its whole running time.

The big scare in the first half of The Innkeepers is an internet prank that you’ll still jump at it shows how good the film is at creating a pervasive air of dread out of a depopulated lobby, the slightly off reactions of characters who can never flat-out tell each other things that should be obvious, and the old favourite, gathering shadows at the end of an era. Following up his effective The House Of The Devil, Ti West prefers a traditional approach. These are the unusual potential horror victims that you’d actually enjoy spending time with.Many recent ghost stories, from Insidious to The Woman In Black, try to be like ghost-train rides - rattling through stories to spring as many scares on audiences, and unwary protagonists, as possible. They can’t sleep they fight to stay awake they get drunk together. Their conversations meander over a variety of topics. The slightly nerdy, wisecracking Luke is fascinated by the inn’s supernatural past and is developing a website on the subject tomboyish Claire doesn’t have anything better to do and gets sucked into helping with his investigation. Sara Paxton and Pat Healy have an easy chemistry as Claire and Luke, the hotel’s two remaining employees who are stuck minding the place over its final weekend. It’s so low-key, it may actually be too languid in parts, but it’s hard not to admire this rare sort of patience, as well as an interest in creating characters who feel like real human beings. West takes his time and doesn’t seem interested in cheap, loud, quick shocks the approach pays off and generates real tension. Writer-director-editor Ti West sets his film at the historic Yankee Pedlar Inn (and shot it at the real hotel in Torrington, Conn., which was built in 1891), which, for our purposes, has a history of hauntings and is on the verge of closing. LOS ANGELES (AP) - The trappings may look familiar, but “The Innkeepers” is a new twist on the good, old-fashioned ghost story: It’s the bored-slacker horror movie.