Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

ryan-10075 Adrian Rawlins plays Arthur Kidd a solicitor who has been sent by his firm to settle the estate of Alice Drablow who has just passed away. Kidd looks at this as a chance to impress the firm with dreams of receiving a partnership. Soon thereafter he witnesses a dark and mysterious woman in black. He also hears horrible noises and voices when near the Nine Lives Causeway (aptly named) that leads to the isolated house. Kidd works on unwinding the mystery of the home.This is a TV movie, but I actually find it scarier than most over done Hollywood horror movies. They don't do it with buckets of blood, but rather with perhaps more subtlety, with sounds and a ghost story that takes time to develop, but is well worth the wait.I really do give screenwriter Nigel Kneale and director Herbert Wise credit for taking the Susan Hill novel which was a pretty darn good horror story and creating this great horror movie that does not stray that far from the novel (if my memory serves correct). I do apologize as I certainly do not remember everything from the novel as I read it a few years back, but I do remember that I really enjoyed it. Had me on the edge of my seat, which this movie does.Highly recommended to those who love a good ghost story.

lincolnsmith-75033 Herbert Wise's Woman in Black is a blueprint on how a film should be made in order to scare the intelligent audience. Adapted from a book by the same name this Television film has one of the creepiest ghosts ever put on film- and she is there standing in broad daylight! The atmosphere is haunting and the pristine 16mm film stock lends itself well to the tone of the film. A remake starring Daniel Radcliffe was made in 2012 but it does away with everything that this film stands for-a minimalist approach. You should definitely see this movie- it maybe hard to procure but the entire film exists on you-tube.

myrddinfyrch A recent "best of" from a sadly neglected genre. The movie is a slow, simmering creep-fest with only one "jumpscare" - but since the hair on the back of your neck was upright already, it might fall out from that scene.Only reason it's not a full "10" is that presumably being a 'made for TV' movie they had a few corners cut for production - some sloppy framing, clumsy cuts, that sort of thing.FAR FAR FFAAAARRR superior to the recent remake. Don't bother seeing that one in the theatre; rent this **IF YOU CAN FIND IT** and prepare for bad dreams.

Johan Louwet This was obviously a TV-movie with a small cast and the focus mostly on lawyer Adrian Rawlins (played by Arthur Kidd) who goes to investigate a house so it can be sold. He gets intrigued by the mysterious fog, the apparitions of the woman in black, the sounds of childish laughter. Even though the movie really dragged in some parts I thought it was done way better than the remake. Everything was way more threatening even if there didn't really happen much. The inclusion of the little doggie as his companion was great too. He eventually goes crazy, who wouldn't. I missed however that the village and the children lived in fear of this spirit, she seems to only haunt poor Adrian.Even though enjoyable I don't think I would re-watch it. The mystery is interesting but it stays pretty vague, the motives of the woman in black too, but that could be me not having understood everything. Still I know much more than when I watched the remake. I do remember very little of the remake only that I was totally unimpressed by it and had a pretty stupid ending. Radcliffe as the lawyer seemed to go pretty emotionless through the scenes while Kidd showed genuine feelings of fear. I think it's just the story which isn't interesting enough for me to give it a high rating.