Creepy and terror movie about a solicitor finds a strange mansion is inhabited by a heinous ghost

Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2019)

Frightening and eerie Hammer Film Production in which a gloomy ghost terrorizes and kills villagers and children. It deals with a young solicitor : Daniel Radcliffe, is assigned to go to a remote village about an inheritance issue. There he discovers a vengegul ghost of a disturbing woman horrifying the locals. As the advocate at law arrives in the far haunted house, awakening the darkest inhabitant at the isolated place, Jeanette Humfrye, otherwise known as Woman dressed in black . She seeks vendetta against villagers, the reason for her son was drowned in a bog , as when she shows up a child from the location dies . As things go wrong when some kiddies are dieing under strange circumstances. Then, the advocate becomes the next target for the nasty ghost. Later on, the lawyer must fend off the damned spirit who takes the scared little boys. She never forgives. She never forget. She never left.
Scary and ghastly movie about a haunted mansion located at Eel Mashland House, there happens weird and bizarre happenings. The easy narration is developed in slow moving, but it doesn't results to be neither boring, nor tiring, but entertaning and creepy . Being based on the successful novel written by Susan Hill and adequate script by Jane Goldman. As a young to be aware dark secrets, finding out scary legends, revealing sinister truths of the menacing Jeanette and her ominous revenge taking the children. The place used for the fictional tale leading to Eel Marsh Island turns to be Osea Island tidal Causeway situated at the estuary of Blackwater river in Essex, England. Due to tidal conditions, the cast and crew were restricted to only a few hours of working time per day at the location. The main and support cast are pretty well, such as Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Jane McTeer, Shawn Dooley and Jessica Raine as nanny. It packs a thrilling and suspenseful musical score by Marco Beltrani, a good composer expert on dark atmosphere . As well as a shading and evocative cinematography by Tim Maurice Jones. This Hammer motion picture was well and professionally directed by James Watkins. He is a good artisan who has directed Tv series as McMafia, Black mirror and films as Bastille day and Eden Lake.
It had a sequel titled Woman in black : Angel of death 2014 by Tom Harper . About a group of children evacuated from WWII London under the care of Helen McGlory, Phobe Fox, Jeremy Irvine , as they go to the sinister mansion where appears again the grisly ghost . There is also a Tv rendition Woman in black 1989 by Herbert Wise with Adam Rawlins, Bernard Hepton. And a third film in preparation.