This isn't the first remake by HAMMER, and it certainly won't be the LAST.

Rating: 5/10 (8 April 2012)

This is a remake of the 1989 made for TV film which was adapted by Nigel Kneale from Susan Hill's Novel of the same name.
This film involves the ghost of a woman which haunts Eel Marsh House. The local villagers say that when anyone espies her, trouble will befall in the form of the death of a young child (or children).
Enter Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe a.k.a. Harry-likes-to-go-potty!) young solicitor who lost his wife during the birth of his son. He is now raising his boy with the help of a nanny.
He is assigned to handle the estate of Alice Drablow, who owned an English manor known as the Eel Marsh House, where she had lived with her husband, son Nathaniel, and sister Jennet Humfrye (Liz White).
At Eel Marsh House, located on an island in the marshes, Kipps repeatedly hears footsteps and sees a woman dressed in black. From then onwards, events occur that finally helps him to unravel the mystery of the woman in black.
Overall this is the sort of movie which will try scare you with its sound-effects. Visual effects are as usual C.G.I. imagery. But if you have watched films like The Grudge and The Ring, this film will be nothing new to you. Bottom line: an average horror film and some even say the 1989 film was better.
I am seeing in my minds eye a lot of top Japanese, Korean and Chinese horror film directors laughing their asses off!
Well in closing: DEAR HAMMER FILMS, CONTINUE MAKE PLENTY OF "DUMB" REMAKES TILL YOU HOPEFULLY WIN AN Oscar OR A BAFTA. GOOD LUCK CHUMS!