The Awakening: Double Play (2 Discs) (Blu-ray)

'florence cathcart' does not believe in the super-natural, she's even written a successful book on the matter.
a teacher from a boarding school approaches her telling of images seen frequently at the school, even showing photographic evidence, he wants her, before the end of term to go to the school and reassure the children that they have nothing to fear, and despite a recent tragedy it was safe to return after the holiday.
'florence' sets up several 'ghost' traps and photograpic settings, if anything came into the room it would be recognised.
still disbelieving, florence soon see's and hears things and initially brushes aside the evidence, however as it intensified 'florence' has to question her long held beliefs.
the early part of the film does indeed have moments of tension, the outcome ??? ...well i'd say, worth watching at least.

Whilst it has stirs and echoes of a variety of classic English ghost stories running through it's story and imagery, this ends up being a watchable but nontheless weaker entry in the genre which really seems and feels more a TV production than a feature film.

In the 1920s, in the wake of the First World War, hoax exposer and ghost disbeliever Florence Cathcart (the strong Rebecca Hall) is contacted by the master of a country school, where a young boy recently died and where ghostly images of another child have been found in school photographs. Accepting a visit to the school, Florence finds herself facing the strongest evidence yet that there may indeed be things that even she cannot disprove...........

Whilst the premise is decent and the film does manage to elicit some tension (out of, of all things a doll's house) and manages to create a reasonable amount of confusion over just what is happening until the reveal the overall experience isn't wholly satisfying. Especially in it's conclusion, which I found I had to suspend disbelief just a little too much for.

It wants to be like 'The Innocents', 'The Others' and even has a dash of the Spanish horror 'The Orphanage' running through it's bones, but ultimately it falls short of all of them. Not a waste of time for genre fans though. However, this is one of those films with zero bloodletting and no gore.................so fans of that sort of horror would be advised to note that in case of any disappointment.