The Woman in Black

[Kane52630]

This looks good, me and my brother edited the UK trailer with another song for fun, check it out.
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[Asgard]

Haha, great job with the edit.

 

[redhawk23]

Saw this tonight. It's a very solid and well put together film. It wasn't necessarly mind blowing, but what it has it makes good use of. It was enjoyable to see Radcliffe in something non-potter related, and he was fine in his role, but seemed a bit young. Similar to the end of of HP7, when he's with his son, it looks more like a set of distantly aged brothers than anything else.

This movie has a few good scare here and there, but really excells in the middle where things are necessarliy dependent upon any particular scare but rather simply being very eerie and disconcerting nonstop for about 20 minutes. Especially considering the time of year, this is very much worth seeing. 7/10

 

[Spideyfan93]

I heard the ending is ballsy and the final shot is creepy as ****.

 

[scifiwolf]

Saw a sneak preview with the press last night. First off, it made me jump. Always props to horror movies now that can do that. It also just makes you uneasy. Some of the imagry and scenarios were just downright bone chilling. Daniel was pretty good in his first non-Potter feature. It's fortunate he has presence, because he has to carry the much of the movie by himself, without dialog. The supporting cast was good, especially the children.

Unfortunatley, the direction and the script were both just average. While there is some sort of element of a mystery to solve, it's paper thin. The movie is more about Arthur Kibbs' time in the house and the repercussions of his presence there. I'd have to give the movie about a 6.5 or 7, on the strength of the cast and the movie's ability to still instill a great sense of unease and deliver some good jumps.

 

[redhawk23]

I heard the ending is ballsy and the final shot is creepy as ****.

The ending is actually softened quite a bit from what it could have been, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

 

[danoyse]

The ending is much different from the original play, too. The ending of the play probably wouldn't have worked in a movie though.

I thought this was really good. Just a perfectly old-school ghost story. Didn't have any problems getting used to a post-Potter Radcliffe, since I've already seen him onstage and didn't have a problem getting used to it there either. It was nice to see him without the glasses though, that kid's got gorgeous blue eyes.

He was definitely a little too young to believe as the father of a 4-year-old, but it worked for what it was. I actually thought he pulled that off perfectly in the Deathly Hallows epilogue, but they aged him for that too.

I was very impressed how it just had every character do every single thing that you probably shouldn't do in a creepy haunted house (go up the stairs, walk right into the room with the creepy noises, etc). It played to the audience perfectly (at my show, anyway), because the payoff was usually just what you wanted out of it.

And the actual woman in black was creepy as all hell.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

every time she did that scream I got chills. the first real scare I had during the film was when he was putting his hand to the hand print on the window and she popped up and shrieked. Basically that whole second act with him spending the night in the house was very well done with the scares I felt. and I now officially hate monkeys.

 

[danoyse]

This movie will also do no favors for the wind-up toy industry.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

o there was one shot that I just LOVED during the scene where he was investigating the nursery where you saw the reflection of the candle he was carrying in the eyes of those two monkey dolls, and it looked like pupils following him as he walked, that was some very clever cinematography.

 

[danoyse]

I loved those shots with with the dolls and the candles too. The woman sitting next to me yelled "I hate that doll!!" at one of them.

Actually, at the end, when [BLACKOUT]you saw Arthur holding his son on the tracks, the audience started clapping because they thought they survived. When they realized what really happened, you just heard this collective "Ohhh!" [/BLACKOUT]

I kinda liked that ending, though. [BLACKOUT]She forgave him, but screw the rest of them. [/BLACKOUT]

 

[DarkSovereignty]

yeah, I thought the ending was pretty clever [BLACKOUT]she kept saying that she could never forgive him for letting him die, but she forgave kipps because he sacrafised himself to save his son like her husband never did, so even though they died, she let them move on to the other side. [/BLACKOUT]

 

[Nightmare]

Saw it today. Loved it.

Wasnt really sure what to expect in the old school setting and seeing a lot of wind up toys at first but wow. Was really creepy at times and really good. Can't wait to see it again.

 

[danoyse]

I worried at first that the way it was ending [BLACKOUT]was a little too happy, but then you realized she was only letting him off the hook and glared at the audience like that. And that was pretty awesome.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[DarkSovereignty]

one quick question that me and one of the friends I saw this with were asking...what the hell happened to the dog half way through the film? lol.

 

[danoyse]

He probably did what I would have done at the first sign of trouble. Ran like hell.

I'm assuming Sam took him home after he picked up Arthur.

 

[scifiwolf]

o there was one shot that I just LOVED during the scene where he was investigating the nursery where you saw the reflection of the candle he was carrying in the eyes of those two monkey dolls, and it looked like pupils following him as he walked, that was some very clever cinematography.

Yeah I freaked out at that, partly from the creepiness and party from the brilliance.

 

[Wolfwood]

I gotta say I didn't have any trouble separating Daniel from Harry Potter until (big spoiler)...

Spoiler

the scene at the end when he was a ghost in a train station. I kept waiting for Dumbledore to pop up.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

now we just need a movie where Radcliffe plays the conductor of a train, everybody's heads'll explode.

 

[DACrowe]

Well that was a sufficiently creepy movie. Well done to Hammer. I love seeing that old fashioned Victorian-horror back on the screen. Also, just the way they visualized and told his journey to the house reminds me of the original Dracula novel with Harker's trip to the castle. Villagers tell him to turn back, the driver won't take him all the way, going to the end of the world, etc.

I was creeped out and given I knew how it ended from the play, that was very nice.

Speaking of the play, they did kind of soften the ending to me. In the play [blackout]We learn from the actor playing Kipps (it's a play-wihtin-a-play) through monologue that his son died in an amusement park accident when he saw the Woman in Black again that day in the park. And he is lost and bitter and alone. Then the Woman appears to claim the actor's daughter.[/blackout] Now, they had to drop the meta-storytelling for film (obviously), but [blackout]letting Kipps die with his son and go to Heaven reunited with his family[/blackout] felt kind of happier. At least than the play's bleak ending. I don't know how the book ends.

Anyway, still a very entertaining movie, in my opinion.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I might check the book out.

 

[Spideyfan93]

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My review if anyone is interested in watching. The movie was definitely creepy as hell and the story wasn't bad either.

 

[Airwings]

Seeing Radcliffe wander along the corridors of that old mansion and hearing creepy sounds, make me think of Harry Potter returning to Hogwarts years after the school had been closed.

 

[terry78]

Saw part of this last night and at one point someone yelled out, "You better call Snape, mother****er!" Cliche, but it got a laugh.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Saw it. It was good and entertaining. The atmosphere definitely added a lot. But the scares sometimes seemed too 'classic' (or used a lot from previous films). Daniel was great in it, made me forget he was Harry Potter - HOWEVER I had difficulty believing he had a son that old. The ending I liked a lot - but it wasn't really "ballsy" - that ending would have been...

Spoiler

His kid dies, he lives. Through the train we see his son join the others. As is the ending was kind of happy for his character - their family is reunited again in heaven.

8/10.