The Woman In Black

Warning: do not go and see this film if you are easily scared.

I am easily scared (apparently) and I went to see this film.

Daniel Radcliffe is very watchable as Arthur Kipps, which is just as well as he is in almost every scene of the film. This is a ghost story about a woman in black who is out for revenge. (I will not ruin the story by telling you any more than that, but you will find out the reasons why she is not at rest).

It was a packed cinema and there was much screaming and nervous laughter in the audience. This film is rated as a 12A. This means any age can come to see it (under 12’s need to be accompanied by an adult), but honestly I feel this is way too scary for anyone under 15 to watch. Ratings should not only be about gratuitous sex or violence but about subject matter and film content. Many people who have viewed it will have nightmares about it afterwards.

Is that the way to measure a good horror story? Perhaps, but for me this will be filed where “what lies beneath” is. (Never to be watched again!).

Go and see it if you are hard enough!