If one had to design a film to occupy the middle ground between
The Orphanage and
The Woman in Black (or between
The Others and
The Devil's Backbone) it might be
The Awakening, in which
Rebecca Hall plays a woman in '20s England who is called to a boys boarding school to debunk the notion that a ghost roams the halls. A teacher played by McNulty, er,
Dominic West helps bring her into the school, and Hall encounters a bit more ...