{"id":2327,"date":"2012-02-03T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2012-02-03T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:20:17","slug":"woman-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"The Woman in Black is an Old Fashioned Ghost Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA ghost story, a true ghost story, should be suspenseful and leave the audience chilled. These days most people expect blood, gore and shock when they see anything that looks like horror story. “The Woman in Black” is not a horror story; it\u2019s a ghost story.
\nIt does have suspense, and there are chills. It does everything it is supposed to do; yet it doesn\u2019t really work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Woman in Black\u201d is about a woman who hangs herself because she is distraught over the death, and inappropriate burial, of her son. She haunts the house and village she once lived in and if she appears to anyone, children in that town start to die.
\nDaniel Radcliffe, in his first film since the Harry Potter films ended, plays Arthur Kips. He\u2019s a young lawyer licking the four-year-wounds of his departed wife, who died in childbirth.
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\nHis job is on the line unless he can settle and sell an estate in the nearby village where the woman in black resided.
\nOn his way to the village he meets a Mr. Daily, played by Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, who lives in the village and befriends him, which is good since he is not welcomed with open arms by anyone else. In fact he\u2019s shunned and pretty much asked to leave.<\/p>\n

Arthur, however, is determined and stubborn. He knows his job is on the line so he forges ahead to the estate to get his work done. It is there that he sees a mysterious vanishing woman in black and it is then that the children in the village start to die.
\n\u201cThe Woman in Black\u201d does work as a ghost story. Director James Watkins, in his second directorial attempt does build suspense and doesn\u2019t spare any expense making the estate, and its contents, look rich, creepy and haunted.
\nThe problem is Daniel Radcliffe.
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\nYes, the camera loves him. Yes, he delivers his lines well, and plays the part of the lonely widower quite well, but he\u2019s too far young for the part. He doesn\u2019t have the maturity to play the lonely widower who has a four-year-old son.
\nThe script paints a lovely, haunted and morose picture, but there\u2019s barely any dialogue, and that requires an actor who can relay his fear, sadness and fright with out overacting. Radcliffe isn\u2019t mature enough to pull that off.
\nThe rest of the cast is fine, good in fact. They fill in the time when Radcliffe isn\u2019t seeing things appear and disappear in the estate, but that\u2019s not enough.
\n\u201cThe Woman is Black\u201d is a good old-fashioned ghost story. All of the elements are there, the only thing missing is a more mature Radcliffe.
\nDoes anyone have a Repario spell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ghost story, a true ghost story, should be suspenseful and leave the audience chilled. These days most people expect blood, gore and shock when they see anything that looks like horror story. “The Woman in Black” is not a horror story; it\u2019s a ghost story. It does have suspense, and there are chills. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4414,5149,8915,10261,22647],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-ciaran-hinds","tag-daniel-radcliffe","tag-harry-potter","tag-james-watkins","tag-the-woman-in-black-review"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}