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A young lawyer travels to a remote village to coordinate a not so long ago deceased client’s papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

Fans of classically structured haunted house/ghost stories will relish the skillfully unnerving chain of events in The Woman in Black, whether or not they’re fans of Harry Potter. The good new is that Daniel Radcliffe leaves Harry behind for good in his primary post-Potter role. Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor tasked with resolving the affairs of a lately deceased woman and her brooding estate in the gloom of the remote Victorian England-era village of Crythin Gifford. The mood is melancholic all around, starting with Kipps himself, who lost his wife to childbirth a few years earlier. His employer has had just regarding sufficient of his moping with regards to and gives him the assignment as a last resort to save his job. When he arrives in the little village, the icy response he receives does not bode well for successful completion of his mission. All the townspeople want him gone, and perchance for good reason. Many of their children have passed away mysteriously gruesome deaths that they blame on the titular black-clad woman whose own child was tragically sucked to his death in the muck surrounding her seaside mansion. This new stranger who wants to unearth the deadly mysteries trapped in the decrepit old house is a threat they cannot abide, and sure sufficient the deaths keep on coming as he delves deeper into the dark recesses of the house and the history of it is ghostly occupant. There are frightens aplenty in The Woman in Black, and they come from a genuineness that relies on creep-outs rather than gross-outs. Faces in windows, apparitions hardly there, slow-building moodiness that abruptly erupts into a silent scream (or most times not so silent) make for an exceedingly effective and many times terribly unnerving atmosphere of dread. The movie comes with various impressive pedigrees as well. It’s based on a frequent novel published in the early ’80s, which was also adapted into a long-running hit play. The movie in addition resurrects the Hammer Films brand, an esteemed British production company that churned out moody and distinguishable horror films and exploitive psycho-thrillers for decades in the mid 20th century. Indeed, the presence of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee seems to lurk around each dusty, cobwebbed corner in The Woman in Black, right behind the slamming doors and only just glimpsed in the flickering candlelight. Radcliffe is perfective for the role of a heartbroken man whose rationality is stretched to the point of no return by the things he may or may not be seeing. Several strong supporting performances add to the gravitas, specially Ciarán Hinds as a kindred soul and father figure to Kipps, and perhaps the only other rational man in Crythin Gifford. But then rationality has closely not one thing to do with the disquieting spirit of this authentically enigmatic, finely understated and expeditiously chilling return to classic horror. -Ted Fry

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66 of 74 people found the following review helpful.
Forget Harry Potter
By Linda Pagliuco
Forget Harry Potter when you watch The Woman in Black. One thing has nothing to do with the other. Daniel Radcliffe is struggling not to be typecast, to establish himself as an adult actor, not an easy accomplishment for any child star. Radcliffe does a creditable job in this movie. A classic, gothic horror story, it contains scary elements without resorting to the gory, shlocky slasher stuff of recent decades. As Arthur Kipps, the young lawyer devastated by his wife’s childbed death, he has little to do other than to act wary and frightened, and appear foolhardy enough to go where no sane person ever would. This film has many strengths, among them the perfect dark, eerie sets, the cinematography that lends a sense of black and white to what is actually a color production, and enough of a mystery to make the viewer wonder what’s going on in the forbidding town to which Arthur is sent to work. Along with him, we figure out, step by step, exactly what motivates the black veiled apparition, and along with him, we trust that he’ll be able to put her to rest.

But there are weaknesses as well. It becomes a bit tiresome to follow Arthur through the dismal corridors of the haunted mansion, armed as he is with only a candle and an axe. Too much reliance is placed upon the sudden shocking revelation, which the audience learns to anticipate. The most effective scene takes place outside the estate, at a family crypt where Arthur encounters the distraught mother of a dead child. Most of the supporting actors have little to do other than to look forbidding and threatening, but Ciaran Hinds and Janet McTeer are superb in there roles as the grieving couple who, alone amongst their neighbors, offer some support to Arthur. The ending is a true shocker.

As is typical, the screenplay is substantially different from the novel upon which it is based, so watch the movie as a separate entity. It’s worth a look. I needed a drink to settle down afterwards!

30 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Chasing shadows
By E. A Solinas
I love gothic horror — big cobwebbed houses, squawking ravens, rolling mists and mysterious sinister figures that are only glimpsed. “The Woman in Black” has all of those. In fact, this slow, haunting movie loads on the Edwardian ghost-story atmosphere so thick that it practically chokes you — and while it tends to move slowly, it’s beautifully creepy.

Young lawyer Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) has a life in tatters — his career is in jeopardy, and he’s still in mourning over the loss of his wife four years ago. He’s sent to sort through the personal effects of Alice Drablow, who left behind a decayed mansion set in the misty marshes — and when visiting the house, he sees a veiled woman in black.

The locals are also desperate to get rid of him, even blaming him for the death of a child who drank lye. And soon Kipps begins to understand why, as he unravels the secrets of the Drablow family, and the madwoman who lost her child long ago. With the help of his new friend Sam Daily (Ciarán Hinds), Kipps will set out to stop the Woman in Black before she claims what’s dearest to him.

I haven’t been too impressed with the output of the revitalized Hammer Films company. “The Woman in Black” is probably the best horror movie they’ve produced — it feels like a modern version of their shadowy, gothic old movies. It’s also not very scary, although director James Watkins tosses in a few jump scares (a raven, a faucet, etc).

Instead, the movie just makes you uneasy. We’re constantly aware that SOMETHING is hovering over this town. But for most of the movie, we only see fleeting glimpses of the Woman and her power.

The biggest problem is that the movie moves rather slowly, especially in the first half. But for me, it’s compensated for by Watkins inserting some truly unnerving scenes, like a hysterical Mrs. Daily carving into the table. And the gothic atmosphere is so heavy and dark that it practically drips from the screen — vast mildewed houses, foggy marshes, half-forgotten letters and old photos, and a grey rainy light that seems to wash the colors from the world.

There’s not a trace of Harry Potter in Daniel Radcliffe’s performance here. His Arthur Kipps is a haunted, broken figure who seems strangely detached from the world around him, except when it comes to endangered children. The only problem is that Radcliffe looks a little young for the role — whenever Arthur is with his little son, he looks more like the kid’s big brother.

“The Woman in Black” is rather slow at times, but the gothic atmosphere and a strong performance from Radcliffe almost make up for that. Well, I’ll gladly take it over rotten slasher remakes.

33 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Really good (but not super) scary movie
By Alan Montgomery
Daniel Radcliffe is on screen most of the time in this movie. He is alone much of the time, too. The haunted house in question is the quintessentially spooky house that is inaccessable parts of the day or night due to the tide washing over a swamp. The eerie atmosphere is well kept and Daniel’s really good in the film. As one review said above, how many ways can this kind of scary movie tell the same story? For those who expect decapitations and lots of gratuitous blood, I’m sorry, but this movie isn’t that kind of movie. Some of the thrill moments are standard, but if, like the other reviewer above, the only thing you’re doing is counting the number of them, then you obviously should not be reviewing this movie. The brief glimpses of shadows moving or figures moving past a mirror get to you almost at once. NOthing is scarier than shadows that move.

Being indelicate, Daniel Radcliffe’s not a tall person, and in this movie that doesn’t matter at all. Still he didn’t have to have a love scene with a taller woman or have to out-yell someone who is a foot taller. It was a wise choice, because now we can just concentrate on the good job he does. (There are long moments when there is no dialogue, and they don’t drag - not for me, anyway.)

Is it perfect? No. But it certainly is preferable to me over those slasher movies (in which I lost interest years ago.) It isn’t quite as surprising as “Sixth Sense”, but the ending was not expected. My real complaint, not addressed by any others, is that the dialogue in some places is slightly muffled. I have some hearing problems, but this wasn’t in that category. The dialogue was simply not clear in places, notably Daniel Radcliffe’s first conversations with his boss and with the man who eventually helps him (whose son has also died.) Dan was fine, but the others were muffled, relying on the British mumble to get through.

I’m glad I went, and my reservations are minor. There were moments when I had reall chills from fright.

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