The Awakening

This is more "The Others" than Saw. I thought it was good but then I didn't go into it expecting car chases and chain saws. If you're looking for gore etc, look elsewhere.

The movie has a real nice feel about it. I liked the story a lot.

After watching some really awful horrorfilms this one was surprise! I found the acting and atmosphere of the movie great!

The film benefits enormously from having the luminous Rebecca Hall as its lead. It also gains an ominous gravity from the haunted, wounded and wobbly England in which it's set.

I enjoyed it, for the story behind the "horror". if it's really a horror then it's a meh kind of movie.

A horror movie?
Well, it was really boring.

The Awakening is an atmospheric British horror film starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West. Set in post-World War I England, a paranormal researcher named Florence Cathcart, who dedicates herself to exposing frauds, is enlisted to uncover the truth behind a haunting at an orphanage; but she soon discovers that there's more going on than a simple hoax. Hall gives a good performance that’s full of nuance. And, the costumes and set designs are well-done; giving an authentic (and slightly creepy) feel to the film. However, the pacing’s rather poor and the ghost investigation is perfunctory. Yet while it’s a little monotonous at times, The Awakening is quite chilling.

Very mediocre and forgettable movie. All of the characters, including the protagonist, are mere caricatures or "shells" of real human beings. Not one of them is anything but a sad cliché, including super hero smartest lady in the world protagonist. I cringed at many of the scenes and dialogues because they seemed so out of place and unreal. I swear you can feel the actors acting at every minute of the movie. None of it is believable, and I don't think it's because of the actor themselves, as some of them are very good at what they do, but because the script and plot is so bad, which makes you not care one bit about any of them.

The first half hour and twenty minutes the movie is incredibly boring and predictable, like any other lame horror movie out there with your occasional jump scares here and there. But suddenly near the end, the director decided to pack all the action that the rest of the movie didn't have and put like 8 plot twists just there. We suddenly get sex scenes, rape scenes, hallucinations, flashbacks, deaths, violent hauntings, suicides, crazy people. And not one of those things make this movie more redeemable or enjoyable. I was just waiting for it to end and, with it, my suffering while watching.

Not recommended at all. Stay away, don't waste your time like I did and watch a good horror movie instead.