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Running time: 106 MIN.Įdward Judd - Joseph Mawle With: Diana Kent, Richard Durden, John Shrapnel, Cal Macaninch, Lucy Cohu, Anastasia Hille, Andrew Havill, Tilly Vosburgh, Ian Hanmore, Steven Cree, Alfie Field.A companion piece to the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens character novels, Star Wars: Before the Awakening is an anthology book that focuses on the lives of Rey, Finn, and Poe before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Gala Presentations), Sept. Harrow assistant director, Toby Ford casting, Shaheen Baig. Screenplay, Murphy, Stephen Volk.Ĭamera (color, widescreen), Eduard Grau editor, Victoria Boydell music supervisor, Alison Wright production designer, Jon Henson art directors, Nicola McCallum, Fiona Gavin set decorator, Robert Wischhusen-Hayes costume designer, Caroline Harris sound (Dolby Digital), Colin Nicolson re-recording mixers, Paul Cotterell, Rob Hughes visual effects supervisor, Sean H. Executive producers, Jenny Borgars, Will Clarke, Olivier Courson, Norman Merry, Joe Oppenheimer, Carole Sheridan. (International sales: Studiocanal, Paris.) Produced by David M.
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Still, the long buildup maintains the promise of a spooky good time, disappointing as its payoff is.Īn Optimum Releasing, BBC Films, Studiocanal Features and Scottish Screen presentation of an Origin Pictures production. Script by Murphy and veteran horror scribe Stephen Volk too often feels over-familiar and underdeveloped. None of this is very satisfying, or particularly scary.
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There’s a lot more running from floor to floor chasing phantoms before all is explained - rather ponderously - in a standard childhood-trauma flashback that too-neatly reduces all mystery to primitive psychological claptrap, while clumsily retaining some belief in intervention from the afterlife. Florence soon deduces one of the staff is responsible for the “haunting,” and he’s promptly dismissed.īut naturally this conclusion proves premature. Next day all the pupils leave for midterm vacation except for Tom (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), whose parents are in India he befriended the recently deceased boy and claims to have seen the specter. Florence sets up her intriguing antiquated equipment for registering disturbances - and/or catching pranksters - then suffers a first night short on both rest and results. Maud professes herself a fan of Florence’s books and hopes she can put all this ghostly nonsense to rest for good. Reluctantly persuaded, Florence arrives at the large country estate and massive manor (once a private residence) of Rookford School, where students are kept in line by one another’s bullying and school discipline.īeyond moody, stammering, war-wounded Mallory, the staff seems to consist entirely of unpleasant professor Malcolm (Shaun Dooley), menacing groundskeeper Judd (Joseph Mawle) and kindly house matron Maud ( Imelda Staunton). Well-known for debunking such hoodoo, she’s soon challenged by brusque visitor Robert Mallory ( Dominic West) to do the same at the boys’ boarding school where he teaches - and where one pupil recently died, allegedly scared to death by the ghost of a child said to have been murdered there some years earlier. We first meet best-selling London authoress Florence Cathcart (Hall) as she helps police expose another ring of phony “spiritualists” preying upon the grieving after a decade in which more than a million Brits died from influenza and in the Great War.