The Awakening R
Sometimes dead does not mean gone.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 29, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rebecca Hall, Dominic West & Imelda Staunton | |
Performer: | Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Shaun Dooley & Joseph Mawle | |
Directed by | Nick Murphy | |
Screenwriting by | Nick Murphy & Stephen Volk | |
Composition by | Daniel Pemberton | |
Director of Photography: | Eduard Grau |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Though the story spirals a little out of control in the film's final scenes, "The Awakening" offers the low-key pleasures of an old-fashioned thriller and a lovely central performance.
Seattle Times
Rating: 3/4 --
An enjoyably old-fashioned ghost story in the vein of "The Others" and "The Orphanage."
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New York Post
Rating: 3/5 --
The performances are fantastic, especially Staunton who is perfectly cast.
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CineVue
Rating: 2/4 --
When these sudden surprises work, as in "A Beautiful Mind" or "The Others," you're too stunned to swallow that next handful of popcorn; when they don't, you're tempted to throw your whole box at the screen.
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Newark Star-Ledger
Dominic West personifies the melancholia of a country overwhelmed by death. -- Grade: B-
Entertainment Weekly
Murphy's film gets good mileage from its frisson-friendly dark pon in the grounds....Teasing echoes of THE SHINING abound...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/5 --
It is beautifully shot and the scenery and the ambience of a large haunted house is wonderfully captured, but can this film be the upstart for the modern British horror?
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Musings of Guitargalchina
Product Description:
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.
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- UPC: 025192170393
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