Actors play themselves

Rating: 4/10 (28 February 2012)

The 12A rating should have given away the level of scariness. The main actors played themselves i.e. Daniel Radcliffe was Harry Potter and Ciaran Hinds was Ciaran Hinds. A few good moments but nothing to make you really jump, there were no squeals in the cinema. If you want a real scare try the Turn of the Screw, either the book by Henry James or the 1961 film version The Innocents. I first saw the film as a child and it scared me witless. Seeing it again as an adult scared me on a whole different level and that has to be the mark of a first class story. The Woman in Black reminded me of a comment made by an elderly friend about how it was amazing that ghosts seem to disappear with the invention of electricity