The Awakening (2011 film)

The Awakening is a 2011 British horror film directed and cowritten by Nick Murphy, starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Isaac HempsteadWright and Imelda Staunton.

Her job seemingly done, Florence prepares to leave but an unexplained hand reaches for her from a pond, after which she faints and falls into the pond. She is rescued by Robert but he and Maud are concerned about her mental stability. Florence recovers but starts seeing and hearing more unexplained things, which prompts her to stay at the school. After chasing what she believes is the ghost, she sees an apparition of a man with a shotgun, who appears to shoot her. She also keeps hearing a childs voice calling Mawa Zee, which she tells Tom was the name some Africans gave to her, after she was rescued from a lion attack as a child. Florence and Robert start developing a mutual attraction but Edward Judd Joseph Mawle, the grounds keeper who has a grudge against Robert for being a war hero, is jealous and attempts to rape Florence in the woods. Florence, assisted by a supernatural apparition, accidentally kills Judd in selfdefense. She stumbles back to the school and tells Robert, who then goes out to bury Judd and cover up the incident. Florence tells Robert not to tell Tom about what happened as it will upset him but Robert tells her that there are no children at the school at the moment.Florence realizes that Tom is the ghost that is haunting the school. With this revelation, buried memories begin to surface in Florence. The stately home that is now the boarding school was once Florences family home where she lived as a child. It was the place where she watched her deranged father murder her mother with a shotgun and then tried to kill her too. As a child, Florence ran into the hidden passages in the walls of the house where she used to play but her father pursued her calling out for his little mousie. Aiming for her, her father then accidentally killed Tom, who was revealed to be her fathers illegitimate son and Florences half brother. Her father then killed himself while Florence watched. Maud is Toms mother, and was Florences childhood nanny. Due to the intense t

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