The Woman in Black: A Review

Director: James Watkins

Producer: Richard Jackson, Simon Oakes, Brian Oliver

Screenplay: Jane Goldman

Based On: The Woman in black by Susan Hill

Starring: Daniel Radcliff, Cairan Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey, Liz White

Genre: Horror/Thriller

The movie starts with three girls who are playing, but suddenly they stood up, and started walking towards the door, their face feels to be hypnotized, or they are in an aura where their own mind is not working, simultaneously they open the window and jumps from it; the camera moves backwards and suddenly there is a view of a woman in a black gown (the woman in black). Scene changes towards, Arthur (Daniel Radcliff) a solicitor, whose wife died while giving birth to her child, since then, Arthur feels the spirit of his wife in a white wedding gown near him. He goes to a village where the people don’t feel to be welcoming an outside visitor. There is a death-like silence throughout the movie, creating an aura of a horror movie. There in the village he finds that a spirit (a woman in black) is making the children commit suicide… Being a solicitor, he tries to investigate the matter and go to the depth of it.

The movie has all the material which could let the viewers not to move from their seats, every new shot is like a turning point. Every bit of the subjectivity and objectivity is truly natural… There are simply no shots of those ugly looking ghosts or demons, instead there is a spirit which would surely arouse Goosebumps on your skin. Although there are some shots of the spirit’s face and the face of the children spirits, adding the thrilling factor in it…

The plot is amazing, a great place which in itself looks to be haunted. The tense of the plot is also setup good. The acting is awesome; all the actors surely have done a great job. It’s great to see our lovely and famous Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliff) in a really different role, with a lot of maturity in his acting.

The direction is also done great…

But I am personally a bit disappointed by the ending of the movie… It’s actually a semi-happy ending; you’ll know why I am saying such when you see the movie…

Elsewhere, a great supernatural horror movie…. Worth of spending money and time watching it….

I give it a 4 1/2 out of 5 stars… Half star cut just for the disliking of the ending.

Note: - The review is the writer's own expression....

Written by: Saurabh Agrawal

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