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Ti West narrated and presented his film on the "Get Lit" Winter Party on Decemin The Purple Lounge at The Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip, Hollywood, California. Dark Sky Films set for a limited theatrical release on February 3, 2012. The film premiered at the SXSW festival in March 2011. The score is composed by American musician Jeff Grace. West shot several scenes in the actual Torrington, Connecticut Yankee Pedlar Inn. for Dark Sky Films in partnership with Glass Eye Pix. The film is produced by Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden, Ti West and Peter Phok. Sara Paxton, Pat Healy and Kelly McGillis signed on in May 2010. In January 2010, Ti West was named as the director of the Dark Sky Films project. As she turns towards the viewer, the door slams shut by itself. The film ends with a view of Claire's empty room where a barely-visible apparition of Claire appears, looking out the window. Leanne tells Luke that Claire couldn't have been saved. The next morning, Luke tells police he heard Claire's screams coming from the cellar but could not open the door to save her. Confronted by Madeline's apparition, Claire dies of an asthma attack.

She tries to open the door that leads to the garage, forgetting she had locked it. She falls down the staircase, injuring her head.ĭisoriented by her head injury, Claire is followed by the elderly man into the basement and finds herself in the room where Madeline's body was kept. She approaches the stairwell, where she is startled by an apparition of the elderly man.

He goes upstairs to find Leanne and Claire hears more noises coming from the basement. Panicked, she runs downstairs and finds that Luke has returned to the hotel. Claire rushes upstairs to retrieve the elderly man, but upon entering his room, she finds a suicide note and discovers his body in the bathtub, his wrists slashed, with Madeline's apparition hanging from a rope. Leanne goes to the bottom of the basement stairwell, where she makes contact with a spirit and then tells Claire that they need to leave the hotel immediately. In a state of panic, Claire awakens Leanne and asks for help. There they encounter disembodied voices and other paranormal activity and Luke becomes so frightened that he leaves the hotel. Luke and Claire decide to investigate the basement where Madeline's corpse was hidden. However, Claire offers to provide the man with a set of sheets as the rooms still have their beds, and she takes him to the honeymoon suite he requested. Luke explains that the third floor rooms have been stripped of their furniture due to the hotel's impending closing. Later that day, an elderly man arrives and asks for a room on the third floor. Early that morning, Claire awakens to Madeline's apparition in her room.

She warns Claire not to go into the basement. Leanne reveals she is actually in town for a psychics' convention and that she has left her career as an actress to become a medium. While recording, she hears faint voices and music, and sees the grand piano in the lobby play by itself. She uses Luke's ghost-hunting equipment to record EVPs in various places around the hotel. She padlocks the door and returns inside. Claire hears noises coming from the hotel's garage, where there is a door leading to the basement. Claire waves to her, but Leanne ignores her and moves away from the window without acknowledging her. The following night, while taking out the garbage, Claire notices Leanne watching from her hotel window. While delivering towels to her room, Claire is starstruck and has an awkward encounter with Leanne, who is initially relatively cold toward her. That afternoon, Luke checks in an older woman, whom Claire recognizes as Leanne Rease-Jones ( Kelly McGillis), a former actress who is in town for an unnamed convention. Both are ghost hunting enthusiasts and are fascinated by the hotel's supposedly haunted history, which includes the legend of Madeline O'Malley, a bride who hanged herself in the 1800s when her fiancé 'jilted her at the altar' and whose body was supposedly hidden in the basement by the hotel owners. Claire, who suffers from severe asthma, has recently dropped out of college, and Luke runs a website chronicling the hotel's supposed hauntings. Claire and Luke are the only employees working during its final weekend of operation. Claire ( Sara Paxton) and Luke ( Pat Healy) are two young employees at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, a once-grand hotel that is about to close.