Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Day 120: The Woman In Black



Arthur (Daniel Radcliffe) heads off to the arse-end of nowhere to spend time amongst the crazy country folk while he sorts through a dead woman’s documents. Despite everybody being massively weird towards him and the fact he definitely saw a ghost and heard creepy noises, he decides to stay in this big haunted house overnight. The woman who haunts it is grieving the death of her child and whenever anyone sees her, she kills a child in the village.

I’m not sure how she was getting the children to kill themselves? Whenever we saw her with them she just sort of looms in the background. But then, she’s a ghost hellbent on revenge, she’ll no doubt have her ways. Another thing I wasn’t sure about was, how could the boy be so well-preserved in the marsh? But I’ve since googled it and apparently the marsh would act as a natural embalming agent, so. That’s cleared that up for me. Another thing! Why would the people have stayed in the village when so many children keep dying because of the ghost woman? They all knew what the deal was, why didn’t they just move away? Don’t get it.

Daniel Radcliffe’s acting wasn’t all that great, he seemed pretty vacant for the majority of the film. But then, I never liked him as Harry Potter either so maybe he’s just always this way. The story was alright and I was pretty scared, but screaming dead people will do that to you.

6/10

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