The Woman in Black (2012)

I saw this and it was really good, but scary in some parts. Mostly it was the type of scary that revolves around not knowing what's around the corner, suspense-type scary. If a movie relies on suspense and the feeling of not knowing what is around the corner, then I'll watch it. I'm not in straight blood and gore, slasher films. Sometimes, the foreign-based scary movies are better because they rely on suspense and thriller-type scary instead of just straight blood, gore, guts and violence.

Summary

-A solicitor travels to a lonely village to investigate a house rumored to be haunted by the vengeful spirit of a woman, who continues to terrorize the locals from beyond the grave

Cast

-Daniel Radcliffe: Arthur Kipps

-Misha Handley: Joseph Kipps

-Sophie Stuckey: Stella Kipps

-Jessica Raine: Nanny

-Roger Allam: Mr. Bentley

-Alexia Osborne: Victoria Hardy

-Alfie Field: Tom Hardy

-William Tobin: Charlie Hardy

-Victor McGuire: Gerald Hardy

-David Burke: PC Collins

Did You Know?

-The young child playing Daniel Radcliffe's son Joseph is his real-life godson. It was suggested by Radcliffe himself, which helped establish a genuine father-son relationship for the movie

-In the nursery scene, the music boxes and mechanical toys are not props, but actual genuine antique toys from the period this movie is supposed to take place in. They were loaned to the set by a collector

-In the 1989 version of this film, Adrian Rawlins, who played Daniel Radcliffe's father James Potter in the Harry Potter series, played the role Daniel Radcliffe plays in this version of the film

-When Arthur opens the curtains, the light shines on three monkey statues. These are the Japanese "three wise monkeys", Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru. They are known for "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil". They are believed to be a Japanese Buddhist "Golden Rule" to help keep evil from spreading

-In real life, the Nine Lives Causeway is actually the Osea Island tidal causeway, located on an estuary of the Blackwater River in Essex, England. The tidal conditions were iffy at the time, restricting the cast and crew to only 4 hours of filming per day

-This was the highest earning horror film to come out of Britain in 20 years

-The car that Ciaran Hinds (Sam Daily) drivers is a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost

-This was the first film Daniel Radcliffe starred in after the successful Harry Potter series

-The only difference between this film and the book this film is based on is that in the novel, Arthur Kipps is happily married, not a widower

-Ciaran Hinds and Daniel Radcliffe were together in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Hinds played Aberforth Dumbledore

-To prepare for his role in this film, Daniel Radcliffe consulted with a psychologist

-In the scene towards the end of the film, where Arthur and his son are killed at the train station, they find themselves in the same place as before, only now empty because of their being in the afterlife. This station is incredibly similar to the train station in the final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt: 2, where Harry dies and wakes up in a train station

-The ending of Arthur and his son reuniting with their wife and mother in the afterlife was considered a happier ending than scenes depicting them killed by a train. Test audiences felt it was too depressing to have them killed by a train and preferred a happy ending of them reuniting in the afterlife

-Daniel Radcliffe's real life girlfriend Rosie Coker appears as "The Woman in Black". She was a production assistant and appears in the "Asleep Behind the desk" scene