The Woman in Black Movie Reviews

Abracadabra! Avada Kedavra! The boy wizard has grown up. How else do you explain Daniel Radcliffe -- as a widower and busy-yet-caring father -- for pulling it off pretty well when there are hardly any dialogues to deliver... when everything depends on his expression (fear to be precise)... and when the real hero of the movie is none other than the woman in black. But then, who is this woman in black? Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) travels to the outskirts of England

After the insipid The Resident, Hammer Films bounces back with The Woman in Black. Adapted from the 1983 gothic horror novel by Susan Hill, the film is set in Edwardian England. Daniel Radcliffe plays a melancholic solicitor Arthur Kipps whose wife died tragically at childbirth. The jaded Kipps, who raises a young son Joseph, is warned by his firm that he is one slip up away from being fired and must head to a remote coastal town to deal with the legal affairs

Unsettling as it is entertaining, The Woman in Black is a deliciously creepy old fashioned ghost story, and the most enjoyable chiller since 2007's The Orphanage. The film, an adaptation of Susan Hill's 1983 book (which spawned a fantastic 1989 TV movie and a popular stage play) is a slickly crafted Gothic spookfest that fiddles with fear in a delightfully cinematic manner. What makes The Woman in Black work is its unpretentious, increasingly alarming

A pleasant change from the blood-and-guts staple of modern slasher films, 'The Woman In Black' is a throwback to those good old-fashioned horror movies that relied on eeriness rather than gore to deliver the scares. In his first role since the Harry Potter movies Daniel Radcliffe stars as Arthur Kipps, a sad-faced lawyer in Victorian England, still grieving for his wife who died four years ago. With a young son to raise, and the fear of losing his job

A creaking, shrieking haunted-house amusement, The Woman in Black makes the most of its old-fashioned virtues. Duded out in a period frock coat and pocket-watch chain for his first post-Potter film role, Daniel Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps, a British lawyer who, years after his wife, Stella (Sophie Stuckey), died in childbirth, has the haunted eyes of the eternal mourner. It’s no wonder too, given that Stella, a beauty in luminous white, periodically hovers around him

In his first role after wrapping the Harry Potter series, Daniel Radcliffe portrays a widowed lawyer in Victorian England. A Gothic haunted-house tale, The Woman in Black retreads the often-travelled ground of the 1960s horror flicks produced by the estimable Hammer studios. Lucklessly, a feeling of dread is missing from the script which favours loud noises and cheap effects over psychological subtlety. Fret and frown, then, along with the widower

The Woman In Black review Biz rating 1/5 stars. What's Good: The initial few reels where the viewer enjoys the sus...