The Woman in Black (2012)
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
7/10
James Watkins
95 minutes
Daniel Radcliffe,
Janet McTeer,
Ciaran Hinds,
Liz White,
Alisa Khazanova,
Tim McMullan,
Roger Allam,
Daniel Cerqueira,
Shaun Dooley,
Mary Stockley,
Cathy Sara,
David Burke,
Victor McGuire,
Lucy May Barker
The Woman in Black is essentially the return of the good old fashioned ghost tale, delivering a lot of great atmosphere and loads of really creepy scenes. Unfortunately, there are some pacing issues from time to time and despite its creepiness, resorted to some of the genre's standard scare tactics. Despite that, it's still a pretty good movie and a solid addition to Hammer Films slate.
The Woman in Black has a long history in the UK — before receiving this recent remake from Hammer Films, there was a successful book, which was later adapted into a long-running stage play, which was then turned into a creepy underrated made-for-TV movie in the late 80s. I liked the original film, but also don’t deny that it had some room for 
improvement. This remake does manage to develop certain aspects better than the original, but also falls short in others, making it a good, but not a great remake.
Set in the early 1900s, the story follows a young lawyer sent to a small town to gather documents from a recently deceased woman that would aid his employers into selling the estate. While there he’s forced to stay in the woman’s secluded mansion home, where he encounters various strange unexplained sounds and visions of a dark figured woman. He 
soon learns of the town’s ghost story of the "Woman in Black". Apparently she’s the vengeful spirit of a woman who lost her own child and now she’s determined to kill the town’s remaining children.
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meant we’d hopefully also see some familiar genre fair as well. I went into the theater hopeful and came out happy to find that the movie didn’t disappoint.
under the latter category as it pulls a House of the Devil on us by attempting to recreate the tone and look of the films of yesteryear.
spurts of action and thriller aspects now and then. It worked in it’s favor, in my opinion.
ultimately disappointing in certain aspects (for me anyway), so I didn’t exactly go into this fourth with high expectations. To my surprise, not only did it recapture some of the great action that was seemingly absent in the past sequels, but it kicked it up a notch and essentially delivered a non-stop pure adrenaline-fueled popcorn flick!
Told in the seemingly never ending “found footage” gimmick that has taken over our beloved genre the past few years, “The Devil Inside” is nothing more than scenes sloppily cut together featuring a young woman trying to prove that her mother is not criminally insane, but demonically possessed. But instead of focusing on the mother aspect of the story (which is never fully resolved), the movie chooses to jump around between different side plots in an attempt to leave no exorcism movie cliché unturned.
