Movies The Awakening (2011) D: Nick Murphy. S: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Shaun Dooley. Classy enough melodrama about post-Great War ghost hunter Hall going to investigate a boys’ school with a possible killer poltergeist on the roster. She meets various possible (human) suspects, such as fetching vet teacher West and creeper draft-dodger Mawle. The film’s on a budget and impressive with the constraints; sadly, the script’s finish leaves the actors flailing. Burnt Offerings (1976) D: Dan Curtis. S: Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Dub Taylor. Badly directed, badly written, and atrociously photographed horror picture about how a creepy house affects summer tenants: mom Black, dad Reed, fun aunt Davis, and tween Montgomery. Davis brings almost all the life to it, and she’s not around a lot. The rest of the performances disappoint to varying degrees, though the script and direction disable them. Boring, too. The Changeling…
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