Young lawyer seeks to keep his job but lands in a haunted house.

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2012)

My public library bought this DVD so I just had to see it, as I do with most movies they obtain. It was good to see Radcliffe in a role past his 'Harry Potter" days but horror movies are not my favorite genre.
Daniel Radcliffe is young London lawyer Arthur Kipps , whose young wife had died, leaving him with a young son and lots of grief. So much grief that he didn't function too well and was in danger of losing his job with the firm. He was given this assignment that he had to do well.
It involved an estate, the Eel Marsh House, on an island of sorts accessible by a road during low tide only, with a marsh on each side of the road. The old widow had died and the law firm was to execute her will but there were lots and lots of papers at the old house and Kipps needed to go through "every last one" to make sure the will was the most current. Kipps travels there by train and found all the locals in fear over the property.
The first and last parts of the movie are very interesting, the middle not so much as it moves slowly and relies on many close-up views of distressed faces and many loud noises to surprise the viewer. All-in-all a pretty entertaining movie. Especially since it cost me nothing!
SPOILERS: Kipps eventually deduced that a woman (in black) was haunting the grounds and the house. Her young son had been "taken away", adopted, then he drowned in the marsh but his body was never recovered. She hanged herself and there would be trouble, other people's kids dying, as long as she and her boy were not united. Kipps managed to dive into the marsh to find the boy's body, and opened the woman's grave to place the boy with her. He figured that set things straight, but when his own son with the nanny showed up at the train station, the boy wandered off onto the tracks, Kipps jumped down to save him, both were killed by the train, then they saw their dead wife/mother on the tracks, they were all reunited in death.