The Woman in Black

OK, the thing is, I don't watch horror movies, especially those with creepy children and moving toys in them. They leave me sleepless for many nights, haunting me in the day, and they get me hallucinating late at night. As much as possible, I stick with fun movies that make me laugh, and most of the time, I just watch movies within the PG-13 rating. 

But since I'm a BIG fan of Daniel Radcliffe, The Woman in Black is a whole different story. I've seen the trailer - which gave me goosebumps! - and I'm really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. Watching it would be like putting a closure to the thought that he is still Harry Potter, geared up with a wand and the cloak of invisibility. 

In The Woman in Black, he's on his own. He's not a boy wizard, but a lawyer named Arthur Kipps settling legal affairs of his deceased client. He's got no Ron and Hermione to be by his side, nor a red-headed Ginny Weasley to hold his hand when things get rough. He's not saving the Wizarding World, but the life of his child. And of course, his enemy is not Lord Voldemort, but The Woman in Black. 

Here's the synopsis of the screenplay by Jane Goldman:

Young lawyer Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) leaves his son in London to settle the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. He discovers a series of inexplicable accidents and suicides have forced the parents of her village to barricade their children indoors, as if protecting them from an unseen foe. When Arthur stays the night all alone at the Drablow’s foreboding house, he hears the screams of a drowning child and sees decaying children listlessly wandering the marshes. He will soon discover these haunting figures share the same date of death, and the same killer.

The ghost of a scorned woman, who was unable to save her beloved son Nathaniel from drowning, The Woman In Black takes on a horrifying form. Set on vengeance, her veil hides gaping sockets eaten away by scavengers and her curse hides an even darker secret … whenever she is seen, a child dies.

In the face of hostility from the local residents, Arthur dredges up Nathaniel’s skeleton and buries it with his mother, hoping the evil spectre will finally rest in peace. In a cruel twist of fate, the Woman In Black turns her claws towards Arthur’s young son. To avoid a fate worse than death, Arthur must now sacrifice everything he holds dear and save his child.

-Jane Goldman, The Woman in Black

And here's the film's official trailer:

♥Andz