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The death of a young boy at a remote schoolhouse and the supposed ghostly circumstance of the incident draws the attention of Florence Cathcart, a young woman well-known for exposing fraudulent supernatural happenings, to investigate the matter and uncover the true nature of the tragic event. With The Awakening director Nick Murphy and his co-writer [...]
The Awakening is a welcome return to the big screen for writer Stephen Volk, self proclaimed ‘tub-thumper’ for the horror genre and the man behind the acclaimed small screen horrorshows Afterlife and Ghostwatch. His new film (out in UK cinemas tomorrow ) was directed by Nick Murphy and is as far from the Death-by-irony gorefests [...]
Nick Murphy’s debut film is an old school ghost story in every sense with Rebecca Hall’s journey to invesigate alledged spooky happenings finds her rolling up at a boys school in the middle of nowhere with a murdered pupil and a host of unanswered questions. I caught the film earlier this month as it plays [...]
Until recently, writer-director Nick Murphy’s credits mostly included a few episodes of the odd TV series or documentary. He’s now starting to make a big name for himself with his first feature film, The Awakening, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, due out in November. Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again [...]
My interest was sparked in Nick Murphy’s film the second I heard writer Stephen Volk had a new ghost story to tell, and today we finally have the chance to see a trailer for The Awakening. What this first glimpse does is give a decent indication of the characters and their motives and agendas, as [...]
I was very happy to see that Nick Murphy’s latest was set to play at the London Film Festival this year as this new ghost story from the writer Stephen Volk looks like a solid antidote to the malaise which the likes of Scream and Saw have introduced to the horror genre of late. At [...]
We’ve had our eye on Nick Murphy’s forthcoming film The Awakening for some time now. Knowing that writer Stephen Volk was working with director Murphy on a ghost story was a possibility too enticing to ignore. Volk’s work is known to millions, with Ghostwatch my own personal favourite, but his TV series Afterlife and his [...]
Standing still amidst the flurry of news from Cannes is a difficult prospect, but for those with the inclination to stop and look there’s all sorts of interesting sights to see. /Film obviously feel the same and they took this shot of an early poster for The Awakening, a period horror which will star Dominic [...]
While Hollywood eats itself with its annual serving of remakes and reboots, the horror icons of the past few decades are crawling back onto our screens like neutered echoes of their terror inspiring forebears. It is reassuring then that some of the most effective horror to enter our cinemas have been original stories such as [...]
