Another lousy remake. What else to expect.....

Rating: 1/10 (23 February 2012)

There is a horrible disease running rampant in the film-world, and there seems to be no cure: The re-make virus. The absolutely disgusting recipe? "We will try and fix that which isn't broken." As far as I'm concerned, there has only been one necessary remake, and that is the first The Hills Have Eyes. Besides that, what the is wrong with the dimwits deciding to do a remake of films that in no way or form can not be bettered? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?!! Ringu?!! A Nightmare On Elm Street?!! And the list and the madness goes on forever. And of course, some moron decided to do a remake of The Woman In Black, the original being in my book one of the scariest horror-films I have ever seen, genuinely chilling.
This one? Ha, ha, what a joke of a film, lo and behold a big budget and zero scares, sounds familiar? Where the original had such a creepy sense of foreboding and doom throughout, not caring to explain every single detail ( I guess a moronic audience needs everything to be spoon-fed to them ) and thus leaving the mystery intact, here they have gone for cheap shock tactics, your run-of-the-mill dead children running about, a rewritten and overly fleshed out storyline, and last but not least an ending that is pure crap. And Harry Potter as Arthur? He still looks like he is 15, so no, not believable in the slightest. Bottom line; if you are 14 and your sad life as an idolizer revolves around everything Radcliffe does and says, and this is your first scary movie by all means, this is right up your street. Drool and **** your pants at the same time! If not, and you actually are a grown-up with a well-developed taste and sense for horror, watch the original. End of.