The Awakening Directed by Nick Murphy Written by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy United Kingdom, 2011 The horror genre goes through phases, often flooding the marketplace with outrageous rip-offs of a good concept. In the 21st century, horror has been mostly found-footage or torture porn, all the time. It’s not often that something without excessive …
The Awakening Directed by Nick Murphy Written by Stephen Volk and Nick Murphy 2011, UK The directorial debut of Nick Murphy opens with a quote from Florence Cathcart’s book, Seeing Through Ghosts, which states that in this age wherein endless lives have been claimed by the war and influenza that ‘this is a time for …
The Awakening Written and Directed by Nick Murphy Starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West & Imelda Staunton UK, 2011 No, the horror remake strand hasn’t reached out to encompass the 1980 Charlton Heston horror The Awakening, where an archaeologist has a spot of bother with a mummy’s spirit possessing his daughter, with this debut feature writer / director Nick Murphy is instead …