I haven't done one of these in a long time, so bear with me. I've got a
Wizard to help me along with this one today. The Woman In Black is a
horror film based around the novel by Susan Hill, and revolves around
this woman dressed in black who's killing children when she is seen by
adults, by making the children commit suicide. Kind of lame, and they
don't really explain why she's doing this exactly.
The film starts Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) who's a young solictor who's trying to sell the house of Alice Drablow. Kipps ends up befriending a man called Sam Daily (Ciaran Hinds) whom's a wealthy landowner, who allows Arthur to spend time at his house while he isn't working at the Eel Marsh Manor. The movie takes a long time to explain what's happening, and is only an hour and a half but seems to drag on more, and more with multiple scenes of Arthur walking around the manor, and getting plagued by a ton of jump scares (a few which really made me jump). The film employs a really heavy creepy feeling, and don't hesitate on making these kids die rather violently, but I only remember only seeing two deaths. The one girl downs a bottle of a lye, and dies in Arthur's arms where as the other one lights herself on fire.
Like I mentioned, we soon get an explanation that the children commit suicide when the Woman In Black has been sighted, but like I mentioned before as well we don't get a solid explanation as to why, and we're forced to come up with our own theories. Honestly, it's really hard to write a review for this film just because of how cliched, plot-less and typical this film is. The two positives I have to give this film are how much little dialogue the film has, which really seems to focus on Arthur's movements, and the happenings in the house which are a fantastic take on this film, but sadly this starts to get stale, and we start thinking Arthur is mute and can't talk. Also, the house feels creepy and they really nailed the design for making it a creepy film, and a creepy house that you wouldn't want to enter.
All in all Woman In Black is a nice take on the horror genre, but seemingly falls flat with the plot, characters, and the whole point of the Woman In Black. It really feels like it missed out on making a great film, and sadly it's one you can watch alone and not really remember it the next day, or not even got scared. Watched this with a friend, and we seemed to have more fun making Harry Potter jokes about what happens in the film. Another saving grace for the film is Daniel Radcliffe is possibly the only good actor in the film, other than Ciaran Hinds. Both of them are really solid, but everyone else feels tacked on, and pointless.
My verdict? Thumbs down. Avoid this film, unless you're curious about horror films set in Victorian times, and if you want to see little children get killed.
The film starts Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) who's a young solictor who's trying to sell the house of Alice Drablow. Kipps ends up befriending a man called Sam Daily (Ciaran Hinds) whom's a wealthy landowner, who allows Arthur to spend time at his house while he isn't working at the Eel Marsh Manor. The movie takes a long time to explain what's happening, and is only an hour and a half but seems to drag on more, and more with multiple scenes of Arthur walking around the manor, and getting plagued by a ton of jump scares (a few which really made me jump). The film employs a really heavy creepy feeling, and don't hesitate on making these kids die rather violently, but I only remember only seeing two deaths. The one girl downs a bottle of a lye, and dies in Arthur's arms where as the other one lights herself on fire.
Like I mentioned, we soon get an explanation that the children commit suicide when the Woman In Black has been sighted, but like I mentioned before as well we don't get a solid explanation as to why, and we're forced to come up with our own theories. Honestly, it's really hard to write a review for this film just because of how cliched, plot-less and typical this film is. The two positives I have to give this film are how much little dialogue the film has, which really seems to focus on Arthur's movements, and the happenings in the house which are a fantastic take on this film, but sadly this starts to get stale, and we start thinking Arthur is mute and can't talk. Also, the house feels creepy and they really nailed the design for making it a creepy film, and a creepy house that you wouldn't want to enter.
All in all Woman In Black is a nice take on the horror genre, but seemingly falls flat with the plot, characters, and the whole point of the Woman In Black. It really feels like it missed out on making a great film, and sadly it's one you can watch alone and not really remember it the next day, or not even got scared. Watched this with a friend, and we seemed to have more fun making Harry Potter jokes about what happens in the film. Another saving grace for the film is Daniel Radcliffe is possibly the only good actor in the film, other than Ciaran Hinds. Both of them are really solid, but everyone else feels tacked on, and pointless.
My verdict? Thumbs down. Avoid this film, unless you're curious about horror films set in Victorian times, and if you want to see little children get killed.
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