The Awakening
Overview
A famed author and noted skeptic attempts to debunk a haunting at a prestigious London prep school, and encounters a supernatural force that seems beyond human comprehension in director Nick Murphy's creepy gothic chiller. England, 1921: As the high cost of war takes a heavy toll on the national psyche, many people turn to spiritualism and the supernatural for reassurance that something better awaits us in the beyond. But Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) isn't buying it. A noted academic, Florence favors logic over fantasy, and she's built her career on proving that ghosts don't exist. Meanwhile, at Rockwood Boarding School, the recent death of a young boy has parents uneasy, and students convinced that the boy still wanders their hallowed halls in spectral form. Summoned to Rockwood by Headmaster Robert Mallory (Dominic West), Florence becomes more determined than ever before to reveal the haunting as a hoax. But when the staunch cynic fails to find a rational explanation for the eerie occurrences around the school, her steely resolve is soon overpowered by sheer terror.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Nick Murphy - Director
Nick Murphy & The Program - Director
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Rebecca Hall
Imelda Staunton
Dominic West
Lucy Cohu
John Shrapnel
Diana Kent
Richard Durden
Tilly Vosburgh
Ian Hanmore
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Run Time: 108
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 738329255633
- Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: October 2021
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's set above the spooker norm by its strong visuals, grief-steeped period setting and lingering ambiguity." - 12/01/2011 Total Film
"Murphy's film gets good mileage from its frisson-friendly dark pon in the grounds....Teasing echoes of THE SHINING abound..." - 12/01/2011 Sight and Sound
"The film benefits enormously from having the luminous Rebecca Hall as its lead. It also gains an ominous gravity from the haunted, wounded and wobbly England in which it's set." - 08/16/2012 Wall Street Journal
"Dominic West personifies the melancholia of a country overwhelmed by death." -- Grade: B- - 08/17/2012 Entertainment Weekly
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