This is a lovely little ghost story, teeming with atmosphere that more than makes up for the rather clichéd twist ending.Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) debunks spiritualists preying on the bereaved in 1921. A modern woman of science, Florence has no time or use for charlatans. When she is offered a job at Rookwood, a private home turned into a boys boarding school whose inhabitants claim they've seen the ghost of a murdered boy, she turns it down flat. But the teacher, Robert Mallory (Dominic West), is insistent that she come put these rumors of a haunting to rest. Florence quickly uncovers a surface mystery but is soon drawn into the horrors of the past and her own personal ghosts.
It doesn't quite live up to The Others or The Orphanage but it's a solidly done ghost story. I would maybe run it with The Woman in Black or even Crimson Peak. It's got that almost campy, gothic vibe. It's currently streaming on Shudder, which I have through Amazon Prime, but if you have a library card, it's also available on Kanopy for free.
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