The Woman in Black

Supernatural Sunday is kicked off with a good old ghost story. Technically it should have been on Tuesday since it is a British film, but I make exceptions when something has been on my list for more than year.

This film is a story about a young, widowed lawyer, Arthur Kipps. He travels to a sleepy coastal English town to examine papers of the Eel Marsh house his firm is arranging to have sold. It is sort of your standard ghost story, a town is cursed by a spirit seeking revenge for the death of her child. When she is seen at the house or near the property she "takes" children in the town, by making them commit suicide. So it is no surprise the town's people don't want Kipps around the house.

Creepy house

The house in the film was designed like your standard haunted house with creepy family portraits on the stairs, cobwebs everywhere, creepy taxidermic animals (particularly creepy "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" monkeys) and creepy children's toys, some of which looked like taxidermic animals made into music boxes. The perfect recipe for terrifying your viewers.

I really don't know what could possibly be giving my son nightmares.

Really. What could it be?

That, and a ghost woman wearing all black with a veil covering her face and when she appears, she often screams in your face! AAAAGGGGHHH! It had some good tense moments that made me jump and although it is pretty predictable, it is a fun flick.

Boo!

On another note, Daniel Radcliffe stars as Arthur Kipps and as much as I tried not to associate him with Harry Potter, at some moments, I couldn't stop from seeing scenes as if he was Harry.

Arthur Kipps at the train station - platform 9 3/4. 

Train going through the English countryside at night - train to Hogwarts. 

Daniel walking out of a room beneath the staircase - Harry's oh so cozy room at the Dursley's house. 

However, he was really good in it and once I disconnected from seeing him as Harry, I saw him more as the character he was portraying. I also chose this one for Sunday in anticipation of him starring in the film adaptation of Joe Hill's novel Horns hitting theaters on Halloween this year.

Wait, he's parseltongue in this too? Now, you're just giving them to me.

It was a decent and moody ghost story so it gets 3 skulls.