The Woman in Black (2012)
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Duration: 95 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / Canada / United States / Sweden
Directed by: James Watkins
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds and Janet McTeer
IMDb score:
6,4 (201.202)
Releasedate: 3 February 2012
The Woman in Black plot
"What did they see?"
Young lawyer Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is assigned to travel to a remote village to sort out the paperwork of a recently deceased client. While working alone in the remote house, he discovers some tragic secrets. He feels less and less at ease when he keeps seeing a mysterious woman dressed in black. The locals refuse to help him find out who the woman is, and before he knows it, he finds himself in a race against time when he discovers her true intentions.
Actors and actresses
Arthur Kipps
Mr. Daily
Mrs. Daily
Jennet Humfrye
Mr. Jerome
Nanny
Fisher
Mrs. Fisher
Mr. Bentley
Keckwick
Reviews & comments
Bottleneck
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- 8233 messages
- 2123 votes
These kinds of country house stories have been milked out like an old cow since the 1960s, so there is no profit to be made there, but there is in the elaboration and that is fine. It's all pretty atmospheric (locations, music box, dilapidated house), but at the same time it's pretty tame and too polished. Reasonable slow burn horror film.
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Insignificance
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- 3220 messages
- 5589 votes
Classic haunted house horror. Too bad Watkins is venturing into such an exhausted subgenre. As far as I'm concerned, he can indulge himself with bitter British hoodies. Leave these style exercises to others. Doesn't take away from the fact that in that area, actually in everything, it is a rock-solid throw. This way the film quickly acquires an adequate atmosphere.
Things are not going well in the village, that much is clear, and that is accompanied by as many creeps and scares as possible. Bizarre behaviour, shadows, a handprint, scary toys, even a rocking chair and more that give things a little bit of power. A beautiful location of course with the house and the road there. There is nothing wrong with the music either.
Radcliffe is still a bit too dry behind the ears for this role, Hinds fits in much better here, but luckily his image doesn't bother me. Watkins does all he can to make it as exciting as possible with teasing punches and sometimes almost (but not quite) excruciatingly slow build-up, but it's too familiar territory to really score with it. Skilled without sticking.
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filmfan0511
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- 1125 messages
- 1166 votes
The Woman in Black is a horror film that does little wrong, but also really rises above the average in few things. The atmosphere is really good; that nice Gothic English country/castle atmosphere, well, you simply never do anything wrong with that in a horror film. A safe choice, yes, but successful. Very nice images, and the tragic music complements this very well. But like I said, it always stays very within the lines, and you won't see anything in this film that you haven't seen dozens of times elsewhere in the genre. The jump scares are predictable, and the tension is often not optimal. Daniel Radcliffe is largely just a limp pancake here, although you can already see the potential that he has increasingly realized in recent years. Not a bad actor, but you have to give him more material than walking around dead serious in corridors, because then he doesn't know what to do and he keeps pulling the same monotonous face.
The plot is very predictable, but the ending surprised me. I don't even know if I think it's a good ending, but the fact that the last few minutes managed to surprise and shock me is on the one hand a plus in itself, especially in a film that otherwise has everything so well within the lines seemed to do.
3*
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
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