The Woman in Black (2012) Review

If you see her, death is inevitable.

Starring Daniel Radcliffe and a bunch of other people because I'm too busy ogling a very dapper and smoking gorgeous Dan.

The remake of the horror flick of the same name in 1989, this story follow Arthur Kipp - a sullen and mournful solicitor goes to a town in a small village to settle the paperworks of a long-dead family.
He leaves behind his 7 year old son(YES DAN RADCLIFFE PLAYS A FATHER ARRGGHHHERMAGERDASOFOETIDA).

He takes the train and we briefly see him having flashbacks of his wedding day and happier times with his wife and her death at childbirth when he happily welcomes his son and the death of his wife. Our hero then on only smiled on cue.

Dan Radcliffe managed to look like a grieving man the entire movie. One up for managing to portray the emotions beautifully. It's a brave and good effort to break from the Harry Potter typecast. A lot of room for improvement but definitely a thumbs up from me.

He meets a friend at the train station who happens to be a local. Upon arriving, the locals weren't exactly welcoming save for his new friend, Daily.

Arthur proceeds to the house on the marsh and sets to work - uncovering paperworks upon paperworks and ultimately stumbling upon the horrifying and disturbing secrets of the people who used to live in the manor.

This is where The Woman in Black is introduced in more depth and we see Arthur trying to bring peace to the village folks because within 2 days he witnessed 2 children commit suicide in the most brutal of manner.

What's that you ask? Oh, about the children in town committing suicide? Yeah ya got the Woman in Black to thank for. She kills the village children to compensate for her own son's death in the marsh[drowned] - no one really bothered to retrieve his body. So day after day she would look in the marsh and remember everytime that her son is in there, rotting.

Fun fact for you - when the WIB was alive she was already a major nutjob. So this blow on her just pushed her over the hedge for good.

Eventually she snapped and voila! Became an angry Ju-On-esque ghost taking her revenge. [If I can't have my kid, neither can you sort of thing].

After witnessing the 2nd child kill herself, Arthur decided he must put an end to this - he asked his only friend in the village to help him retrieve the dead boy's body and reunite him with his mother hoping she will leave the villagers alone at last.

Arthur was successful and she did manage to reunite with her son.

But the Woman in Black is far too angry to let her curse go[seriously, this woman was insane even in life how do you think she'll be in death?]. She continued her offspring murder spree.

Enough with the synopsis I'll let you watch the rest yourself mafakas I ain't spoiling the good bit for yous.

Verdict:

A) HOLY CRIMINETLY. This movie is a fucking creepfest. I'm serious right from the beginning you have this unnerving atmosphere, knowing things are about to get ugly, real bad.

B) The teeth-grinding, nail-biting suspense will really make you scream like a little bitch occasionally. I ain't no scaredy-cat but holy poptart I swear I had mini heart attacks whenever the WIB makes her appearance. Ya gotta give it to Arthur for wearing the same pair of pants when WIB pays a visit I would have changed mine at least a few times.

C) The psychological impact of the characters in this movie is brilliant. You have Arthur who is mourning for his wife, Daily mourning for the loss of his son and a wife who went completely flip after her son's death. The village people who are forever on guard and scared shitless all the time should the WIB makes a move and takes their children[like seriously, it's like Joe the Baker's kid saw the WIB and died, who's kid is next?].

D) This movie is macabre. Like dead-on macabre. It's been a while since I watched a good horror flick that made me "Oh-God-I-cannot-unsee" feeling.

I truly recommend everyone to watch this movie - it's superb. Definitely a winner for me. But if you like to use headphones to watch movies, please keep your cursor on the volume at all times. The sudden loud-to-silent-to-loud-to-KABOOOOM audios in the movie induce dizziness. =\