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· Year: 1989
· Director: Herbert Wise
· Writer: Nigel Kneale, Susan Hill (novel)
· Cast: Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton
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· Based on the book by Susan Hill.
· Made into a play.
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While investigating a deceased client's secluded mansion, a young attorney incurs the wrath of an apparition that is tied into a local tragedy.
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The Woman in Black is an excellent example of how subtlety and restraint can create almost unbearable tension. The apparitions in the film appear only rarely, and when they do, it is seemingly at random; the frights in the film are calculated for--and deliver--the maximum effect possible. And the atmosphere utterly refuses to let up after we're dealt a fright; the film is presented in an intoxicating manner that keeps the viewer deeply involved. The only weakness of The Woman in Black is its narrative--we're given just enough information to get us curious about the ghost's history, but the film doesn't deliver those goods in the end. What The Woman in Black does deliver is a simple, frightening story that ends in a disturbing finale. Recommended.
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This is the best horror movie I've ever seen. Period. It is also, unavoidably, the scariest, and I dare anyone to watch it alone at night with the lights off. Herbert Wise wisely chooses extreme suspense over "shock tactics." You won't be able to predict anything about this movie--the ghostly apparition will never appear just when you expect her to, and will always appear when you don't. I watched this when I was just twelve years old and I can still remember almost every scene. The only movie that comes close to this is the original The Haunting . . . and that's some compliment.
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