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The Awakening (2011)

Directed by: Nick Murphy

3 stars

1921.  Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), a professional ghost story debunker, is asked to solve an apparent haunting at a boy’s prep school in the North of England.  One boy has died, and there may be a link to an earlier, rumoured death in the grand house which the school now occupies.  Armed with her intelligence, a detached, fragile scepticism (she is still mourning the loss of a man in the Great War) and a large number of scientific instruments, she heads north. Read more