Sleepy and Hollow

Rating: 2/10 (12 August 2012)

I ended up fast forwarding segments of The Woaman in Black as it was so boring. I didn't like the somewhat similar The Others either however if you did, with The Hanunting/Legend of Hell House thrown in you may get something out of this. Just because a revamp of old school horror represents the antithesis of torture porn and scream teen horror it does not necessarily make it watchable.
The causeway linked spooky island house is a decent setting but the script is clichéd and derivative. Like the bleak landscape and weather the film has a morose atmosphere which ground me into fast forward button submission. The "scares" were cheap and predictable. I award one point for the downbeat ending which is generous because it is signposted. A far better attempt at a vengeful ghost/haunted house movie is The Abandoned which is set in Russia. What is infinitely more interesting is where Daniel Radcliffe goes from here as this was a safe option in his attempted transition from boy wizard.