In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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Movie2011·107 min
The Awakening
Directed by Nick Murphy
A horror thriller film directed by Nick Murphy.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 23%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
6.4/10
2K ratings
About The Awakening
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Dark (2 of 9)
- Intensity
- Intense (7 of 9)
- Complexity
- Layered (6 of 9)
- Humor
- Serious (1 of 9)
- Scale
- Intimate (1 of 9)
- Spirit
- Haunting (3 of 9)
- Texture
- Unsettling, Contemplative
- Story Tags
- grief and loss, trauma recovery, faith existentialism, early 1900s, supernatural, grand estate, small town, strangers forced together, war homefront, detective investigator, outsider misfit, investigation procedural, slow burn reveal, mystery disappearance, ghost haunting, gothic horror