The Woman in Black

A Victorian solicitor crosses paths with an aggrieved ghost in the screen adaptation of Susan Hill’s novel and the sell-out stage play it spawned., A widowed lawyer travels to a secluded village on an important assignment, and encounters a vengeful ghost with mysterious motives. After losing his beloved wife in childbirth, young barrister Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) was nearly consumed by grief. A haunted widower father, he raises his young son with the help of his devoted nanny. Arthur is on the verge of losing his job when an important client of the firm dies, and his boss offers him one last opportunity to prove his worth by settling the woman’s affairs. Determined to succeed, Arthur travels to the remote village and receives a chilly welcome. Something horrible once happened here, and it seems that the locals are determined to ensure Arthur never finds out what it was. Now, the more time Arthur spends in his client’s crumbling estate, the more aware he becomes of a presence that isn’t quite human. In this house dwells a woman’s ghost. In life she lost something precious, and now in death she’ll do whatever it takes to get it back. Until she does, her spectral presence will serve as a harbinger of doom, always to be followed by the death of an innocent., Daniel Radcliffe stars in this Hammer horror tale of supernatural goings-on in Victorian England. While still grieving the loss of his wife, London lawyer Arthur Kipps travels north to Eel Marsh House to organise its sale. At first it sounds like a straightforward assignment, but when he arrives it becomes clear that it’s anything but. The remote village nearest the property is unwelcoming and suspicious of Kipps, and the old house itself is forbidding and creepy, even before he enters it; once he’s inside, it quickly reveals a panoply of scares and horrors. Is it really haunted by a woman clad in mourning clothes, who confers a curse on all who see her? If so, is she responsible for the series of mysterious deaths that have befallen local youngsters? Or are the villagers concealing dark secrets behind their cloak of unfriendliness and stories of a vengeful ghost? Also starring Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer and Liz White. The film was adapted from Susan Hill’s novel by Jane Goldman and directed by James Watkins, who supplies a steady stream of aural and visual shocks and scares throughout., In this chilling tale, widowed attorney Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is haunted by a vengeful ghost after he travels to a deceased client’s secluded country home. In time, Arthur decides to investigate the ghost’s intentions., Widowed attorney Arthur Kipps is haunted by a revengeful ghost after he travels to a deceased client’s isolated country home. In time, Arthur decides to scrutinize the ghost’s intents., Widowed lawyer Arthur Kipps is haunted by a vengeful ghost after he travels to a deceased client’s secluded country home. In time, Arthur decides to investigate the ghost’s intentions.