After hearing quite a bit about this movie, I had high expectations about it...Well they were fulfilled! The quality of the production is excellent: the setting
(particularly the marshland), the sounds, the clothes, the details of the old house...They all help to build up the atmosphere of tension and mystery. The
woman in black herself is one of the best ghostly creations I have seen in a
movie: I found the moments when she appears -unexpectedly- in the
background, her silhouette just standing there, the most terrifying of the whole movie...Even more than the one particular scene mentioned in other comments.
The movie succeed also in leaving you with a sense of unease about the whole
story...The main character, Arthur Kidd, is sent by his boss, Mr Sweetman, on a mission that Sweetman himself knows it is doomed. He probably knows the true
meaning of the ghost's apparitions and still he sends Arthur, a likeable young husband and father, to settle old Mrs Drablow's estate. Then Arthur himself
seals his fate by saving the life of a young girl...At the end of the movie you find yourself reflecting on this terrible moral dilemma: if he left the girl to die, would have all this happened? Recommended viewing!!!
(particularly the marshland), the sounds, the clothes, the details of the old house...They all help to build up the atmosphere of tension and mystery. The
woman in black herself is one of the best ghostly creations I have seen in a
movie: I found the moments when she appears -unexpectedly- in the
background, her silhouette just standing there, the most terrifying of the whole movie...Even more than the one particular scene mentioned in other comments.
The movie succeed also in leaving you with a sense of unease about the whole
story...The main character, Arthur Kidd, is sent by his boss, Mr Sweetman, on a mission that Sweetman himself knows it is doomed. He probably knows the true
meaning of the ghost's apparitions and still he sends Arthur, a likeable young husband and father, to settle old Mrs Drablow's estate. Then Arthur himself
seals his fate by saving the life of a young girl...At the end of the movie you find yourself reflecting on this terrible moral dilemma: if he left the girl to die, would have all this happened? Recommended viewing!!!
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