DIRECTOR:
James Watkins
PRODUCER:
Richard Jackson, Simon Oakes & Brian Oliver.
CAST:
Daniel Radcliffe as Arthur Cripps.

Ciarán Hinds as Sam Daily, a local landowner

Janet McTeer as Elizabeth Daily, Daily’s wife

Sophie Stuckey as Stella Kipps, Arthur’s wife

Misha Handley as Joseph Kipps, Arthur’s son

Liz White as Jennet Humfrye, The Woman in Black

Daniel Cerqueira as Keckwick, the carriage drive
Tim McMullan as Jerome, the local solicitor

Aoife Doherty as Lucy Jerome, Jerome’s daughter

Roger Allam as Mr Bentley, senior partner of Kipps’ firm

Victor McGuire as Gerald Hardy, a villager

Alexia Osborne as Victoria Hardy, Hardy’s daughter

David Burke as PC Collins, village constable

Ashley Foster as Nathaniel Drablow, The Woman in Black’s son

Jessica Raine as Joseph’s Nanny

BASED ON THE BOOK OF SAME NAME BY SUSAN HILL

THE PLOT:
A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.
THE REVIEW:
A wonderful enjoyable scarily exciting movie. The director has managed to bring an old supernatural movie to screen without making many changes.
He has made changes, but good ones. He has also managed to brig out the dark spooky-ness and the supernatural element of Susan Hill’s Book. The movie keeps you on the edge while watching it. Just when you think nothing is going to happen, something does.

The creepiness described in the book is hard to bring to the screen. The main horror element is the sounds of foot steps that is heard in the house in the swamp.

It was a little strange to see the kid who played Harry Potter come, play a person with a dead wife and a son. The movie is scary in all the right places. The Woman in Black is a kind of movie which scares the audience with creaking floor boards, distant figures, silhouettes and shadows in the window. This type of movie is rarely seen these days except in the Paranormal Activity series.

FINAL VERDICT:
A scarily awesome movie with a great cast and an awesome director who has brought to screen a traditional story to please the modern audiences.
8/10