TIFF 2011: The Awakening Nabs US Distro

By Uncle Creepy
September 13th, 2011

More distribution news coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival! The new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy, The Awakening, has been picked up by the Cohen Media Group for a Stateside release.

"Set in post-World War I England in 1921, the film follows a skeptical woman who travels to a countryside boarding school to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting. Just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling spectral encounter which defies all her rational beliefs."

Rebecca Hall (Dorian Gray, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974), Dominic West (Hannibal Rising, Punisher: War Zone, Centurion), and Imelda Staunton (Alice in Wonderland) star in the film.