Daniel Radcliffe has come a long way from the lengthy Harry potter serious..now tries his hand in horror thriller and other genres..The women in the Black is old fashioned, creepy less makes you sleep with some glimpse of fear
Direction: James Watkins
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds
Story
Arthur Gibbs(Daniel Radcliffe) a sad-faced lawyer from the Victorian London, a young Widower with a son stills grieves for her wife death. Gibbs in the edge of loosing his job gets a final assignment from his boss on a real estate issue in a coastal village. He alone travels to a remote village in the country side to sell the house and clear the document activities of the women who recently demised. No body helps him on the issue of buying the house as they feel it is haunted and ghost running around the house. Gibbs doesn't believe it..goes to the house started to see a black women...slowly all the small Children's of the village started to die
Country people blames Gibbs for going to the house...wants to reveal the mystery..with the help of rich man in the village ..he stays there for one night..People warn about the black lady and her death quench towards child....few say about his four year old son will also die..On the night he experiences some ghostly events and faces some frightening incidents....he decides to settle the black lady soul after the truth unfolds...unfortunately after the truth too..her curse continues....
Strengths
Daniel Radcliffe is the person who has shouldered the movie with his immense presence and star value. He is still with Potter hangover but surpasses easily the dejected lawyer role. Rest of the cast is okay..The sets/costumes which represent the 18th century needs special mention. Photography is at its best capturing the mood of characters and the place.Locations are wonderful..that too the haunted house in the middle of the sea...is creepy..the dark lighting's , the color tone of the movie is brilliant. Graveyard surrounded by the fog and children's at the doorstep ..oooohhhhhhh...
Weakness
The whole movie travels at snail pace...Fate-less the movie feel of dread and fear in the script is missing with some cheap noise and effects make you tiresome..barely the movie is creepy and frightening as all the characterization, mirror ghost reflection, haunted attic ,noisy chairs & stair case ..has seen before million times...audience doesn't seems to be worried about the climax as screenplay is dull and wooden...Like all of the ghost stories it is predictable ..
Very few scenes were good but on the whole this movie very below to the par of Daniel Radcliffe
Verdict:2.5/10(1 for Daniel Radcliffe, 1 for Photography & locations, .5 for two/three scenes)
Movie canvas Punch: The women is black is tiresome...
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