WOMAN IN BLACK 2

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.