The Awakening (2011)
Directed by Nick Murphy
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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The very first glimpse of the massive stone building brings with it an air of foreboding much in the same way films like The Others and The Haunting (the 1963 version) used their settings almost as an additional character.
A haunted, post-WWI England is the setting for “The Awakening,” an enjoyably old-fashioned ghost story in the vein of “The Others” and “The Orphanage.”
Though handsome to look at, so-so supernatural chiller “The Awakening” recalls “The Others,” “The Orphanage” and other haunted-house tales of recent vintage, making an impression more derivative than memorable.
Set in a 1921 England still reeling from World War I and the influenza pandemic that followed, The Awakening is an upscale supernatural tale in the vein of The Orphanage and The Others , a film that tries to balance its genre elements with human drama.
"The Awakening" is reminiscent of 2001's " The Others ," 2007's " The Orphanage " and, most recently, 2012's " The Woman in Black ."
The movie bears some resemblance to Alejandro Amenábar's 2001 spooky-dreamy chiller "The Others."
Ultimately “The Awakening” serves as the latest reminder of the brilliance of 2007's terrifying “The Orphanage.”
A haunted, post-WWI England is the setting for “The Awakening,” an enjoyably old-fashioned ghost story in the vein of “The Others” and “The Orphanage.”
Though handsome to look at, so-so supernatural chiller “The Awakening” recalls “The Others,” “The Orphanage” and other haunted-house tales of recent vintage, making an impression more derivative than memorable.
Set in a 1921 England still reeling from World War I and the influenza pandemic that followed, The Awakening is an upscale supernatural tale in the vein of The Orphanage and The Others , a film that tries to balance its genre elements with human drama.
"The Awakening" is reminiscent of 2001's " The Others ," 2007's " The Orphanage " and, most recently, 2012's " The Woman in Black ."
Imagine The Woman In Black without the undead woman, The Orphanage without that masked orphan, or Nicole Kidman’s The Others without those pesky, otherworldly “others,” and you pretty much have Awakening.