Hammer Film
Directed by:
Tom Harper
Starring by:
Phoeboe Fox, Jeremy Irvin, Helen McCrory, Adrian Rawlins
This is the first
movie I saw in 2015. So I expected to be something tremendous as I had with
Paranormal Activity, The Marked One, which became my first at 2014. Something
funny realizing that the main roles in this film were also the cast on Harry
Potter sequel, as Daniel Radcliffe starred at Woman In Black (2012). Helen
McCrory (Jean Hogg), as Narcissa Malfoy, and Adrian Rawlins (Dr. Rhodes), as James
Potter.
The rain of bomb
in London forcing Eve Parkins gathering her schoolchildren, especially Edward
who had lost his parent, with the headmaster evacuate to the countryside town
and taken by Dr. Rhodes to Eel Mars House. Turn out that she found many odd
things in the house, besides the nightmare she had, Eve also heard some weird
noise from the cellar which apparently came from rocking chair, a message that
scolding her mistake of letting her baby’s go few years ago, and seeing a woman
dressed in black, who vanished in no time.
The strange things
keep happening when Edward experienced apparition from the ghost after his
friends lock him up in the nursery room. And on the next morning, the boy who
bullied Edward was found dead on the swamp. The odd continued when Flora try to
kill herself by strangled her own neck and finally died by gas mask. The
situation get chaos and the two teachers realized they had to leave the house
to the air force bunker with Harry Burnstow, the young pilot who runs air-base
decoy.
The black-dress
lady ghost kept following them and taken Edward back to the house, Eve who
finally realized that the ghost look after for her also returned to the house
to set the boy free. Did she manage to do that? I think you should watch the
movie…
But I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed if you expecting
something special in this movie. I watched the first Woman In Black, and though
I don’t had chance to write the review but I still remembered that movie leave
me no impression to be reminded. This movie solely relies on jump scares to
scare the audience. It works sometimes but it gets a bit repetitive and
predictable, such as the scene of a nurse who carried a baby, I knew somehow it
would turn change to something horrible and it did…
The message was
clear, The Woman In Black wanted Eve to suffering the pain of watching Edward
died in the swamp, just like what happened to Alice Drablow who watched her
son, Nathaniel died in the swamp as well. Turn out that Jennet Humpfrye, the
mother of the child she adopted, killed her because of the hatred she carried.
It’s no make senses to me, maybe it’s because I just don’t understand, why the
Woman In Black had to be Jennet Humpfyre instead of Alice who made suicide.
There almost no
mistake in this movie, except for the black out in the cellar which supposed to
be light up the torch instead of the matches, and the stared played efficiently
at their part. If you want to watched this movie, I think you better be put low
expectation and preparing yourself for the mediocre taste.
