Before we get into our end of the year awards lists, let's take a few minutes to at least offer a paragraph or two on some of the movies that we never got around to writing about, and that deserve to have a few words spoken about them.
Now here's a small, quiet little flick that caught our attention and held it, and we ended up having a great time watching it.
Rebecca Hall is great as a paranormal debunker who is invited to a
London Boys school to investigate some alleged ghost sightings, only to have a bunch of eerie things happen, a few of which were pretty effective (Dollhouse. We'll say no more.)
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| Creepy ghost kid, We'll say no more. |
The Awakening is set in 1922 London, so if you like movies with that spooky old world feel about them, you'll most likely love this one. The movie feels a lot like
The Orphanage or
The Others, in that it's a slow builder, and tells its story in quiet, hushed tones.
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| Spooky! |
The Awakening is really more of a
Mystery than it is a pure
Horror flick, but it's engaging none the less. Its strong point is really in its characters, and the actors that play them.
Rebecca Hall is a great in her role as she is hot, and
Dominic West is a fave of ours ever since his work on
The Wire. They both shine here.
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| But where was the sex scene? |
If you like it slow and soft, then
The Awakening may just be right up your alley. It was for us, at the very least, a welcomed change of pace in a year filled with so many loud and visceral horror movies.
B
Rebecca Hall needs to be in more Genre movies.
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