The Woman In Black (2012) - She's Mad. So Is He!

★★★★☆

‘The Woman In Black’ is dark, atmospheric and creepy. Unlike most of the horrors where ghosts prefer to pop up and talk to the main character about their miseries, the spirit in the film never says a word in fact. She tells her story through newspaper clippings, photos, notes, letters and hidden words on the wall. There are shadows, reflections, sudden scratches, weird sounds, a moving chair, etc to indicate that she’s there. This is a story about a haunted house and the woman who used to live there. She did harm to herself, and she’s doing it to all those kids. Why and how are what it’s all about.

The woman’s mad because she’s not forgiving. A man (Daniel Radcliffe, ‘Harry Potter’ series) meant to find out about her is mad too, since no one, I guess, would be as bold as him to be willing to stay in that house alone even after seeing horrifying things; or be so insanely determined to want to get a dead body out of the marshes where he’s likely to get killed. He doesn’t seem to act like a normal person at all. Maybe it’s due to his pain of losing his beloved but his fearlessness is after all unconvincing. This film would definitely be more of a good flick if it could provide more insights into the cause of his madness.

One more thing I like about this film is its ending that is intriguingly fascinating, coldly warm, and poignantly comforting. I’m not playing with words here. You never know till you see it.