2012
So I've never been one to go with the flow and dis a movie if the collective reviews are negative or love the fuck out of something that's a 'cult classic' I'm honest with my reviews and I like what I like and I liked this movie.
The very first scene gets right to it, we see three girls all playing with their dolls having a grand old time and the suddenly they all stop dead and slowly and eerily walk to their window and jump. Suicides are a popular theme in this movie.
The movie is well shot and once you get past all the Harry Potter jokes you see that Danny Radcliff is a rather fantastic actor and I think he breaks away from the role of Harry well enough that he can be a better and wider actor then he first started off.
My one issue with Mr Radcliff is his character has a four year old son... a FOUR YEAR OLD SON when Danny himself doesn't look more then 19 with a bit of bum fluff going on where a beard should be and sporting very wtf eyebrows..
His son is adorable and we find out about his tragic past,cus no good character can get away without some tragic past right?
We all have a giggle at the sons drawings showing how sadface the miserable and gritty looking main man is. He travels to a little village to get some dead woman's will in order and the village gives off one hell of a 'This is a local village for local people!' right away everyone hates him.
Cus he's a wizard outsider.
One guy who doesn't believe in all this mumbo jumbo be-friends Mr Kipp and even invites him to dinner. It's made more then clear that the people of the village don't want him there and he manages to bribe some very homeless looking guy to take him to the dead woman's house..
Which is on an island, on it's own, separated from the village by the sea. Cliche of all cliches I know but bare with us. The house the moment he goes in is very typical of a haunted house and right away we know shit is going down. He spends the day and in true supernatural horror form things go bump in the night.
Every scare is easy to see coming from the footsteps along the old wooden floors to the thunder storm raging out the window. And you know that EVERY SINGLE TIME Danny Radcliff looks into a reflective surface or out a window for a prolonged amount of time OMG THERE SHE IS THE WOMAN IN BLACK, EVERYONE SCREAM!!! AAAAAH!
Yes, 95% of the scares you do see coming but you WILL still jump. The movie is shot very well and the fading in and out of faces of the woman and the other dead is very well done and tastefull. If you want a good old fashioned super natural ghost story with great costumes and an old worldly feel this is good. Beats the fuck out of Paranormal 'this is a real story but has a sequel or two' Activity
So we find out that every time someone sees the woman in black someone in the village, a child DIES and it's all Danny's fault and they try once again run him out.
But that's be no fun right? so he stays anyway and low and behold more shit goes down, we even see zombie mud man son of woman in black. We find out more of her story, how her sister fucked up with her husband and took the child with them, how the child died and the woman's hatred for her sister.
Danny and his friend decide if they find the kids body and reunite it with the mother all will be well so we get to see Danny covered in mud and some over acting [although alot of the cast is a tad hamming it up] so the plan goes ahead and the son and mother are reunited but the words NEVER FORGIVE echo through the old ladies house.
The curse as it was, is not over and his son and nanny come to visit and once again the woman in black decides to tell a child to go and kill themselves.
The ending as more cheese then a double cheese and bacon whooper meal but it's sweet, very sweet and it a lovely ending as you do feel for this man and his troubles. Also this movie has alot of child killing which is still a mega taboo in alot of things.
If your looking for a movie with depth, maybe not this one but it is a good old fashion scary ghost story, it's so nice to have something like this over the gore, gore, gore slash stab kill gore that the horror genre is pretty much stuffed with.
If you want to watch a good movie that will make you and a few people scream in the movies, you need this one.
Acting: 3.5/5
Scares: 5/5
Gore: 0/5
Story: 4/5
Overall: 5/5
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