For a British film, not excellent... Apart from 2 supporting actors

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2012)

If the plot involves historical period in a distant British place with abandoned castles, old graveyards and tide waters, then you have a large part of a horror film already in place. And if all main characters have lost someone close, then their mind is willing to accept and see different gloomy matters. Such is the background of awkward and supernatural things happening to and around a poor lawyer and the widowed father Arthur Kipps - normally, but not splendidly played by the former Potter guy Daniel Radcliffe. The real gems of the film are Ciarán Hinds as Sam Daily, a local landowner and Janet McTeer as Elisabeth Daily, Daily's wife, who are really catchy to watch. Well, the whole film is more or less thrilling to watch, but I would have preferred some real evil involved, rather than spiritual phenomenon. Though the ending is unexpected and stylish, I felt somehow empty when the credits appeared, that I saw just a hollow story.
I have heard that there would be a sequel titled The Woman in Black: Angel of Death. In all probability, I will skip it.