Just finished watching Hammer Films new feature movie “The Woman in Black”.
Have to say that it was exceptional and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I did think wee Harry Potter was totally mis cast for the main role. He did manage to provide a decent bit of over reaction that was necessary in sections of the film. His extremely youthful looking face was far from the worldly wise and experienced middle aged man that should have been cast.
That aside, the film clearly had throw backs to the Hammer Horrors of yore as many scenes like the small village inn that warns away strangers and the hastily hurrying indoors of their children as Young Harry ambles past. Cinematography was excellent, long dark corridors and shifting shadows cleary reminded me of some of the old vampire flicks. The nostaliga was oozing from the film! Which was great to see.
As a seasoned horror veteran i was pleased to be actually shocked, which is rare these days. Some scenes where superbly scripted with shock after shock. At one stage I had a almost total body spasm as a sharp shaft of adrenalin seemingly went from my head to my toes!
All in all, I would definitely watch this again as the last horror I really enjoyed was quite some time ago. That was Insidious.
For a discussion on the ending of the film once you have seen it, please click on the link below.
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