Alicia I love this movie so much

ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Coventry Several horror fanatics active on this website, as well as more acclaimed film critics all over the world, are often referring to "The Woman in Black" as the best and most atmospheric made-for-TV horror/thriller ever accomplished. Well, guess what, they are quite right! Herbert Wise's film, based on the stunning novel by Susan Hill and turned into a screenplay by the phenomenal Nigel Kneale (who also created the original "The Quatermass Experiment"), is an incredibly slow-brooding but hyper-unsettling tale that crawls underneath your skin and haunts your memories forever. The strongest assets of "Woman in Black", apart from the flawless script, are undoubtedly the tour-de-force performance of lead actor Adrian Rawlins, the carefully elected filming locations & set-pieces and the continuously ominous ambiance with only a few (but highly effective) fright-moments. Herbert Wise particularly differentiates his film from the rest with two specific qualities that aren't frequently featuring in the horror genre, namely patience and eye for detail. The patience that Wise demonstrates in building up the tension is praiseworthy, to say the least, and the details can be illustrated via a few examples, like the spooky mansion only being accessible during low tide or the poetic beauty of mysterious woman meandering amidst tombstones. What the film doesn't feature, however, is graphic violence or gory make-up effects, but like only the case in the very best horror movies, you're not missing these. More recently, in 2012, James Watkins ("Eden Lake") directed a cinematic version starring Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter" all grown up) as the tormented solicitor. The large-budgeted interpretation of Hill's novel is also adequate, but for experiencing the most authentic ghost-vibes, I advise to seek out this version as well.

atinder I saw this movie for first Early this year, I saw 2 weeks before seeing the remake.This movie did start of little slow and as goes scene get a little odd and creepy.Some of scenes were really tense to watch and little odd and love connection with the Dog (Unlike remake and I felt this movie had offered more then remake did) Which thought was really sweetThe ending for this movie was one of the most the chilling endings ever as it's gave the chills for few days 8 out of 10

cloudrunner I had this TV film in my video collection until DVD came along. I now find it's only available on NTSC DVD. That makes it a bit of a faff on my current set-up as I have to go into the menus on my player to manually set it to NTSC. The picture quality isn't as good as PAL due to the slower fresh rate of NTSC.So I was wondering, with the new big-screen version due out soon, whether the current owners of the film might release this version on Region 2 DVD in PAL for it's original viewing audience who have such fond memories of watching it that Christmas? About the film - very atmospheric and creepy. I'll always remember Spider the Jack Russell, the creepy wax cylinder recordings, the unexplained happenings in the house, Arthur Kidd's convalescence and THAT scene... and the unforgiving Woman in Black.

Catharina_Sweden This is a classical, very scary ghost story! It contains all the right elements: a lot of atmosphere, a foggy moor, a haunted old mansion, locked-up rooms, old secrets etc... and of course the ghosts themselves: the woman in black and the creepy ghost child, that one is never allowed to actually see. All props, clothes etc. are also exactly right for the period - the Victorian age.Adrian Rawlings is very good as the young lawyer, who behaves very bravely and rationally at first, but then becomes more and more frightened - and finally cracks up.Bernard Hepton is also the perfect actor for the part of the old land-owner, the perfect old-fashioned British gentleman, whose biggest grief is that he has no son to leave all his riches to... His wife, who has a bad conscience about not being able to have children, is also very good. I like this subplot, because so many infertile women the world over can recognize themselves in it.The reasons I still give this movie only 8 stars instead of 10, are two. 1) The "reason" for the haunting was a little disappointing. I expected it to be something much worse. After all: accidents happen... 2) There were too many things left unexplained. What had happened to all the other dead children on the private church-yard belonging to the haunted house?, for example. And why should the ghosts continue to persecute the lawyer, and in the end destroy him and his whole family..? He was after all only doing his job, and it was not even as if he had come across some secret that was not already known to the village people...I prefer stories where everything is explained and neatly tied up in the end. But this is still a very good and scary horror movie, well worth watching!