'The Awakening' unsettling rather than creepy
The best ghost stories often have a gimmick or sting in the tail that sends a chill down the spine, epitomised by M Night Shyamalan’s audacious debut feature 'The Sixth Sense'.
'The Awakening' is a haunted house story set in the aftermath of the First World War, which provides all of the requisite bumps in the night but doesn’t quite get under our skin.