“The Awakening” (** out of four) was an elegant but empty horror thriller set in England in 1921 in which a hoax exposer (Rebecca Hall) visits a boarding school to explain the sightings of a child ghost and finds that her psychological world begins to crumble as she falls for a teacher (Dominic West) and she finds that him and others may have sinister intentions. Strong acting and filmmaking holds your interest for a while but story eventually stalls and gets tiresome and tedious and final half-hour begins to go off the rails. By the end, it ends up to be much ado about nothing.