The Woman in Black (2012)
Country: GB/CAN/SW
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: James Watkins
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds
Synopsis:
An employee of a legal firm, who has lost his wife during childbirth, is sent to the northeast with the task of examining the papers of a woman recently deceased there. He finds a remote coastal village riven with superstition and plagued by a history of tragic child deaths.
Review:
Susan Hill's novel, for years a successful production in the West End, is finally dusted off for a big-screen treatment. There is rather less poring over documents and rather more wandering around the creepy house, which is understandable given a film adaptation, but one wonders why they felt it necessary to stress that this was the hero's last chance to make good in his job when he does so little work (though it does explain the lengths to which he is prepared to go!) The well-staged thrills are mostly effective in raising the hair from the crown to the nape of the neck, particularly in the cinema, and the wide screen is used to the full. It is just a pity that an actor with so modern a style of delivery was cast to play the lead.
Country: GB/CAN/SW
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: James Watkins
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds
Synopsis:
An employee of a legal firm, who has lost his wife during childbirth, is sent to the northeast with the task of examining the papers of a woman recently deceased there. He finds a remote coastal village riven with superstition and plagued by a history of tragic child deaths.
Review:
Susan Hill's novel, for years a successful production in the West End, is finally dusted off for a big-screen treatment. There is rather less poring over documents and rather more wandering around the creepy house, which is understandable given a film adaptation, but one wonders why they felt it necessary to stress that this was the hero's last chance to make good in his job when he does so little work (though it does explain the lengths to which he is prepared to go!) The well-staged thrills are mostly effective in raising the hair from the crown to the nape of the neck, particularly in the cinema, and the wide screen is used to the full. It is just a pity that an actor with so modern a style of delivery was cast to play the lead.
Country: GB/CAN/SW
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: James Watkins
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds
Synopsis:
An employee of a legal firm, who has lost his wife during childbirth, is sent to the northeast with the task of examining the papers of a woman recently deceased there. He finds a remote coastal village riven with superstition and plagued by a history of tragic child deaths.
Review:
Susan Hill's novel, for years a successful production in the West End, is finally dusted off for a big-screen treatment. There is rather less poring over documents and rather more wandering around the creepy house, which is understandable given a film adaptation, but one wonders why they felt it necessary to stress that this was the hero's last chance to make good in his job when he does so little work (though it does explain the lengths to which he is prepared to go!) The well-staged thrills are mostly effective in raising the hair from the crown to the nape of the neck, particularly in the cinema, and the wide screen is used to the full. It is just a pity that an actor with so modern a style of delivery was cast to play the lead.