Slow, Boring, Unscary Horror

Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2015)

I went into this movie knowing that the ratings were good, but hearing that it wasn't that great. Unfortunately, I found next to nothing enjoyable about this movie.
The plot is, although interesting-ish, rushed and never fully developed. Despite the beginning of the movie being incredibly dragged out, it was dragged out with absolutely nothing. There was next to no content in the first hour of the movie. You might as well skip the first hour, you'll probably like it more and understand just as much.
The characters are below average. Like I said, this movie is very rushed. So along with the plot being rushed, the characters follow. There's some forced in back story stuff at the beginning, but the characters are incredibly stale and flat. Nothing special.
The movie as a whole is just boring, especially the first hour. Sure, there are some things that could qualify as 'horror', but they were so unbelievably unscary that the whole movie ended up feeling more and more like a failure over anything else. 'Fear of the unknown' was used during this time, but none of the fear was known to the main character, so I was never tense or scared for him at all. He didn't know he had reason to be afraid, and in the end he didn't. They made that clear early on.
After the first hour the horror actually becomes good...for about ten minutes maybe. I actually enjoyed those ten minutes and had hope for the movie suddenly, wondering if this would be the rest of the movie. Nope, I was wrong. Afterwards it declined into boredom once again with several cups of stupidity thrown in this time.
Overall The Woman in Black is just really boring. Nothing happens. Ever. Sure, it was good for about ten minutes, but the other 85 minutes were just a waste, and I had to spend an hour getting to those few precious minutes. Sure, it wasn't impossible to watch, but it was pretty unpleasant to. Somehow the movie manages to move too fast yet be extremely boring. In the end there is no way I would ever recommend The Woman in Black.