
The Vault(2017)
Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank.


“Sometimes dead does not mean gone.”
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

Rebecca Hall
Florence Cathcart

Dominic West
Robert Mallory

Imelda Staunton
Maud Hill

Isaac Hempstead Wright
Tom

Lucy Cohu
Constance Strickland

Cal MacAninch
Freddie Strickland

John Shrapnel
Reverend Hugh Purslow

Diana Kent
Harriet Cathcart

Richard Durden
Alexander Cathcart

Alfie Field
Victor Parry
The Awakening is a horror, thriller, mystery film released in 2011 exploring themes of suicide, england, classroom, investigation, supernatural, haunting. Directed by Nick Murphy, it stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton. In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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