The Woman in Black: DVD Review

The Woman in Black: DVD Review

Rating: M
Released by Roadshow Home Entertainment

Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe heads to spooky town for this adaptation of a 1980s book.

Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps, a lawyer who's on his last chance with his firm and haunted by the death of his wife, who died in child birth.

Kipps is sent to a house in Edwardian Britain to tie up the affairs of the owner of Eel Marsh House. However, on his arrival, he's shunned by the villagers and finds superstition rife within the small village. Settling in at the house to pull the paperwork together, Kipps soon finds all manner of things which go bump in the night, and a curse which could prove to be eternal.

The Woman in Black is a fairly well paced, spooky outing which builds and successfully maintains an atmosphere of general discomfort and ookiness. Radcliffe gives good haunted person as the lead even if he does spend a lot of the film simply looking like he's recoiling in horror and general uncertainty throughout.

The Woman in Black is an effective chiller, which is occasionally formulaic and a little too reliant on the obvious scares (ie heightened soundtrack, long drawn out camera movements) but shows that British horror can still be done well when it needs to.

Extras: No Fear: Daniel Radcliffe as Arthur Kipps

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