The Awakening

Genre: Horror

Worldwide gross$6.9M

In 1921, in London, the arrogant and skeptical Florence Cathcart is famous for exposing hoaxes and helping the police to arrest con artists. The stranger Robert Mallory tells her that the headmaster of a boarding school in Rookford had invited her to travel to Cumbria to investigate a ghost that is frightening the pupils to death. He also tells that many years ago there was a murder in the estate and recently pupil Walter Portman had died. The reluctant Florence finally accepts to go to Cumbria. On arrival, she is welcomed by governess Maud and the boy Thomas Hill. Soon Florence discovers what had happened to Walter and then the students, teachers and staff are released on vacation, and Florence remains alone with Robert, Maud and Tom in the school. Florence is ready to leave the boarding school when strange things happen, leaving Florence scared.

🏆 4 wins & 2 nominations total

Genres

Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director

Nick Murphy

Cast

Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton

Released

11 November 2011

Runtime

1h 42m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.5 / 10

Votes

71,604

Metascore

53

Rotten Tomatoes

64%

Box office

$209,696

Budget

$4,798,235

Edition

Base