Title: A Silly Adaptation of a Really Scary Novel
Review: "The Woman in Black" is a short (138 page) British novel written in 1982. It attempts to recreate the classic Gothic ghost story from the 1800's and it succeeds wonderfully -- this is a hella scary book, steeped in Gothic atmosphere and slowly but deliberately paced. Honestly, it will creep you out. But somehow, this movie f***s it all up, despite being an otherwise well made flick. I've read the book, twice, but even with that I couldn't follow the movie, as so much as been "re-imagined." And it's no longer a scary ghost story, just a muddled flick with some wanna-be scary graphics. Such a waste.
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