2011 · horror · thriller · mystery
The Awakening
Directed by Nick Murphy1h 47m2011
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Our read: The Awakening (2011) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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