What´s the plot?
Set in post-World War I England, ‘The Awakening’, tells the story of Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), a sceptic determined to expose fashionable séances and supernatural occurrence as fakes.
When she travels to a countryside boarding school to disprove an apparent haunting, she experiences a chilling encounter with the other side that her logic cannot explain.
An atmospheric chiller with distinct gothic influences, ‘The Awakening’ is directed by Nick Murphy and stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton.