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| The very grey poster for James Watkins' The Woman in Black |
QUICK REVIEW:
A young single father gets a last chance as an attorney in London: Sort out the documents from the country estate of a deceased woman for future sale. But the woman still roams the house!
Incredibly slow and boring ghost story remake from the British Hammer Films with Daniel Radcliffe and a long-faced Ciarán Hinds.
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| Daniel Radcliffe in the first movie after his Harry Potter-years, James Watkins' The Woman in Black |
Only one protagonist to drag the story forward means even more boredom here, and I found myself constructing dubious Harry Potter-jokes during the longest minutes of Woman.
"Don't go chasing shadows!", Hinds urges Radcliffe in the film, whereupon he does just that, which seems symptomatic for the cliché-heavy, slow Woman. ( - And what's with all the toys...?)
England seems nearly uninhabitable in the film. The few good scenes include SPOILER a marsh-diving scene and the last scene by the train.
Gruesomely dull and untimely, The Woman in Black still became a big hit, once again proving the horror genre's impressive viability.
It is directed by James Watkins (Eden Lake (2008)), who is next making the terror-themed movie Bastille Day (2016).
Watch the trailer here
Budget: 15 mil. $
Box office: 127.7 mil. $
= Huge hit, biggest UK horror hit in 20 years
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