The Woman in Black (2012) Movie Review

• DVD Release Date: May 22, 2012
• Release Date: February 3, 2012
• Author: Susan Hill
• Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds and Janet McTeer
• Script By: Jane Goldman
• Director: James Watkins
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Rated: PG-13

Daniel Radcliffe's The Woman in Black movie is an adaptation of the novel The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. In the movie version of the story, Radcliffe plays a lawyer who visits an English village to settle the estate of Alice Drablow. As the trailer shown below shows, things are not quite ordinary.

Let me introduce you to The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe's horror movie and his first movie after the Harry Potter franchise finished. It is a creepy movie, a spooky period drama, perhaps best described as a supernatural thriller. I could hardly wait to see it and held out high hopes that it would be an old-fashioned horror movie rather than a slasher style horror movie. I was not disappointed.

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The Woman in Black was made into a movie for television in 1989. That film was well received and is now a somewhat hard-to-find and often expensive movie. Of course, Radcliffe's involvement in the project has brought renewed interest in the first movie, which means extra demand for existing copies of the film.

This version of the story starred Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran and David Ryall. It received extremely flattering viewer reviews with comments like 'old-fashioned suspense and fear' and 'a very creepy ghost story that delivers.' It is an excellent movie and is one that you should see, once you have finished reading the book, of course.

If you want to see the original Woman in Black (1989) movie with Adrian Rawlins, you can find it here on eBay.

Written by Susan Hill

The Woman in Black is a young adult novel, a story that "chills the body with foreboding of dark deeds to come, but warms the soul with perceptions and language at once astute and vivid." The book compares to a Jane Austen ghost story. It is similar set as it is on an English moor with a hero arriving to look after the estate of Mrs. Drablow. What he finds is not expected and "more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare" and contains many of the items associated with horror stories from a rocking chair in a nursery to a child's voice heard screaming in the fog.