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TIFF 2011 Buyer’s Club: #17. Nick Murphy’s The Awakening

A drop dead gorgeous acting lead (Rebecca Hall) with strong acting creds might do a lot for this horror thriller and TIFF are mentioning this title and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others and Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage in the same sentence. Might be a winner.
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#17. The Awakening 
The Gist: The Awakening is set in 1921, a post-war world of loss where the bereaved seek solace in spiritualism. Haunted by the death of her fiancé, Florence Cathcart is on a mission to expose all séances as exploitative shams. However, when she is called to an English boarding school to investigate a case of the uncanny, she is gradually forced to confront her scepticism in the most terrifying way, shaking her scientific convictions and her sense of self to the very core.

Director: Nick Murphy (Feature film debut)
Sales Agent: Studiocanal
Selling Point:/Suited For:A drop dead gorgeous acting lead (Rebecca Hall) with strong acting creds might do a lot for this horror thriller and TIFF are mentioning this title and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others and Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage in the same sentence. Might be a winner.

 

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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