Should you watch The Woman in Black?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

The Woman in Black
Film · 2012
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
The sides of The Woman in Black
- A widowed lawyer sent to a remote village
- A house on a marsh cut off by the tide
- A ghost tied to the deaths of children
The Woman in Black is good for you if…
- you like a ghost glimpsed in the corner of a dark room.
- you like long silent scenes in Eel Marsh House, waiting for something to move.
- you like gothic Edwardian England, with fog and candles.
The Woman in Black is bad for you if…
- you can't watch stories about children dying.
- you need a hopeful ending.
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