The Woman in Black
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
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- Cast:
- Daniel Radcliffe , Ciarán Hinds , Janet McTeer , Liz White , Tim McMullan , Jessica Raine , Shaun Dooley
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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The Woman in Black is a paint-by-numbers horror movie. You know what you're getting and you can see the scary coming from a mile away. It does have some fun jump out moments and some hair-raising creepiness, but it's nothing new or special. Daniel Radcliffe isn't out of his Harry Potter shadow yet (I kept wanting him to blast the ghosts with his wand), but this horror movie is a good start.
One of the most underrated horror films ever made, this made for TV film shows how to employ atmosphere and vibe on a minimal budget and get away with flying results. The entire film, shot on 16mm film and shot on location is scary from start to end. The story is already pretty well known- A young solicitor is invited to a far flung location to see a strange happening: A female ghost terrorizing the land. It is based on a novel and a famous Daniel Radcliffe version was also made recently in 2012, but this is the film to watch in my opinion.
I still don't understand why this movie is labeled as a drama-fantasy movie when it is obviously a clean horror movie. I loved the film. Daniel is one hell of an actor and he showed it again here. The tension building and the atmosphere are over the top with the typical dark british weather. The only thing that I didn't like were some of the typical horror movie scenes, especially the scenes with the dog barking and the moving chair, but still, it is one of the better horror movies I've watched in recent time.
If you have never seen a single horror film in your entire life, then perhaps the Woman in Black is for you; however even the average film goer can identify this is tired, worn out, done-to-death story we've seen hundreds - - if not thousands - - of times before. The story is simple. In the superstitious turn of the 19th Century to the 20th Century, a solicitor/lawyer/whatever has business with a scary old house that local village people fear and believe to be haunted. It turns out the house is very much haunted by a ghost, a woman in black, who inflicts murder and grief upon the village folk because of her sons death at the house as Daniel Radcliffe's character discovers by snooping through desks and drawers whilst staying at the house. The plot escalates quickly, which leads one to believe a large portion of the script had been removed in the cutting room floor. Radcliffe's character catches on and becomes cluey all too soon into the story.The only problem with this film that writes it off as a success is that it is so, so, so very unoriginal. I can't imagine how many times I've seen this type of story before; maybe I'm just neck deep into horror films but as previously suggested, even someone with the slightest idea of horror and thriller knows this textbook ghost story. There is nothing original about the film, which I could overlook if there were redeeming characteristics like a uniqueness in film making, musical composition or script writing but the Woman in Black falls flat in all aspects of this. Furthermore, the jump scares and attempt to create a sinister, spooky vibe are some what embarrassing.With the overall film being taken into account, it isn't actually bad. The style is superb, with brilliant cinematography and quality acting (not so much on Radcliffe's behalf) and what I really liked about this movie is its location setting – the swampy causeway leading to Osea Island and the general countryside of Essex set a lovely and gloomy mood for the remaining hour and thirty minutes. I would never recommend or even bring this title up in conversation, as I can think of plenty of other classic ghost story titles at the top of my head that are far more interesting than this brilliantly developed, but unforgivably run of the mill story.