The Woman in Black (2012)

[Skyedriver]

BBC Wednesday
Hammer film very like a 60's HHH film brought up to date with CGI
Son walked in , oooh Harry Potter and walked out again.

[dukeboy749r]

I liked the film - good suspense, at times. Yet, I really struggle to get over Daniel Radcliffe as anyone other than Harry Potter. And ultimately did degrade it somewhat for me.

That and the car having modern lights.

Still makes my son wary of long corridors.

[Warhavernet]

I think it initially had a stage play run, wonder how they did the spooky stuff onstage.
It was OK, lots of frights, and a fab downbeat ending.

[Watermead]

Warhavernet said:

I think it initially had a stage play run, wonder how they did the spooky stuff onstage.
It was OK, lots of frights, and a fab downbeat ending.

We saw it in the West End 10-12 years ago, but I think it has been done on stage a few times. It was very effective in a theatre setting. I don't want to say to much about the Lady herself, but if you are sat in the right seats, you could be in for a surprise!

[2xChevrons]

Watermead said:

We saw it in the West End 10-12 years ago, but I think it has been done on stage a few times. It was very effective in a theatre setting. I don't want to say to much about the Lady herself, but if you are sat in the right seats, you could be in for a surprise!

We studied the original novel at school in English Lit GCSE as part of the gothic literature module. There was a school trip up to London to see the stage play (at the Fortune Theatre). The school had block booked the right seats. As both a horror experience and a piece of technical theatre production it was incredible. I know I wasn't the only one in that class to need to sleep with the lights on for a while.

We also watched the 1989 TV film (adapted by the same writer who did the The Quatermass Experiment. That's also very good - the lower budget gives it a different style and feel to the 2012 Hammer version. Closer to the book, I feel, and more like a feature-length M.R. James Christmas Ghost Story. More creeping, ratcheting psychological dread and character work rather than the 2012 film's reliance on dramatic visuals, jumpscares and setpieces. Not that the older film doesn't have some jumpy bits!

The 1989 film remained/remains lodged in my mind in a way that the recent version did not.

[p1doc]

i really enjoyed it and thought daniel did a good job acting in it

[some bloke]

It was one of the scarier films I've seen, I'm a bit of a wimp with horror films - scary ones that is, not old HHH ones.

I might watch it again soon, one bright sunny afternoon.