The Woman in Black (2012)
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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Sadly Over-hyped
Boring, long, and too preachy.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
It is great to see Harry ... uhmmm ... Daniel has grown up and takes on more serious roles. This movie transports the feeling of the early 1900s very well and the creepy scenes are quite good. Daniel Radcliffe and Ciarán Hinds have an amazing chemistry while acting and also the old house looks impressive. On the negative we have, once again, annoyingly loud and often false jump scares, who ruin the experience a lot. Definetely worth a watch, allthough I am a little disappointed. After all, I expected a little more from director James Watkins, who also did the amazing Eden Lake movie back in 2008.
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.
A young lawyer visits a remote village, sent by his firm, in order to complete a series of paperwork. There, he's confronted with a ghost which, with every apparition, takes the life of local children as revenge for some gruesome past events. He starts investigating but the whole world turns upside down when he discovers that his own son is in grave danger.Although interesting as a base idea, it isn't able to keep you attracted as the story unravels, the main character being literally chasing shadows most of the movie, mainly with no results. It has a very dark and spooky atmosphere, almost perfect for this type of movie but its actions are far from pleasing. Besides some scarce dialogue and frightening encounters, almost nothing interesting happens. You want to find out how it ends but it's a bit hard to endure basically the same thing, repeating over and over again.It is grim, it is sinister at times and it has a catchy plot, but its course of events is a bit letdown, not to mention the unsatisfactory finale which, in my opinion, makes the whole struggle before it simply pointless. An average movie after all.
This movie is too close the The Marsh and another movie which I forgot the title.It has little creativity in its story and is highly predictable. While I was watching it with a friend, I was betting that this or that would happen next and it all happened. BORING!I recommend skipping this if you have seen many horror movies in your life as it bring nothing new to the genre nor does it have an original scenario (too similar to The Marsh).The acting is somewhat alright, but like all modern horror big money movies, the scariness is focused mainly on sounds rather than actual horror or psychological horror. Typical of ameritrash movies. At least it does not end with everyone clapping their hands like most ameritrash.