The Woman in Black Scary Movie Reviews

The Woman in Black Scary Movie Reviews

Last night, I watched the Woman in Black with my family. My mother recommended it, after she tried seeing the movie alone. It was so scary that it nearly gave her a heart attack. It is not so much the spooks, but the tension built around the film. The woman in black keeps you at the edge of your seat. It also gives you a little something to think about after the movie is over. It certainly gave me a lot to think about. Now, let us begin with the review. The movie begins in a very eerie fashion. Three little girls are playing with their dolls. Out of the blue, they seem to see someone.




They then turn their gaze toward the window. Simultaneously, these girls jump out the window, to their death. Outside, we hear a wailing mother yelling, “My Babies!!”. From this scene, we jump to Harry Potter. In this movie, he plays Arthur Kipp, a widowed lawyer, who has a four year old son. He has been suffering a terrible depression, ever since his wife died. This is quite noted in the detail of the drawings of his little boy. You see, he drew his daddy as a sad stick figure with a traveling bag. His son always sees his father depressed. To make matters worst, he is on the verge of loosing his job. This is his final chance to prove himself, else they kick him out of the firm.

His assignment is to get the paper work necessary to sell the Eel Marsh House. Needless to say, they sent him on an almost impossible assignment. That house is haunted by the Woman in Black. At first, the movie does not shed too much light into the superstition about the Woman in Black. Like in most superstitious films, the towns people are reluctant to talk about it with outsiders. They fear to be taken as mad. Some even try, to convince Arthur not to go to the Eel Marsh House. However, he has to go there to look through all the papers. He is determined to do his job, for the sake of his son. Ah, the things one does for one’s kid.

The irony of the film is that his determination to sell the house led to his ruin. I am not going spoil the ending. Now, onto the woman in black. The woman in black is a personification of death.
 I noticed that all the “woman in black” related deaths occurred when the kids where left unsupervised. Those kinds of tragedies happen very often. A good example is the girl that drank lye. I looked information on Lye. Lye was a very common household item. It was used to preserve food and to make soap. Many lye pellets looked like candy, at a first glance. It was easy for children to swallow them, mistaking them for candy.

In other lye related kids death, it would happen as thus. In the old days, the lye in its liquid form would be stored in everyday kinds of bottles. The kids would mistake them for water and drink it. In no time, their stomachs would explode. I know this from experience. In Cuba, a lot of kids died of lye. Mother used to see hundreds of lye related cases at the hospital she worked at.
As for the first balcony scene, there have been hundreds of cases of kids jumping out off windows. Its never good to leave kids unsupervised. Specially, when they are playing in the top floor.

One never knows what they will feel like doing. Kids ,at a young age, do not have a good grasp on their mortality. Therefore, it is explainable that the three girls would think they would not die from jumping out the window. As for the drowned kid, well... just about anyone can drown in the beach. There is nothing supernatural about his death. Although, for the movie purposes, his death was blamed on the woman in black. If you think about it, she was a being created for the sole purpose of blaming parent’s neglectfulness on her. The girl who caused the fire, was obviously a pyromaniac. One gets those kinds of brats from time to time.

Lastly, the one who was ran over in the train was also a common death. Even if your kids is right next to you, you should not assume that they will not do something stupid. The minute that his father let go of his hand, that made him the next victim of the woman in black. Another thing I liked about the woman in black was the use of animals. The crow taking care of its chicks inside the Eel Marsh House represented the ideal mother. She was always watchful of her chicks. Think about it, Arthur left the window open for her, yet she did not abandoned her chicks. Another interesting bird brain, was the little bird that imitated sounds. In one of them, he mimicked the sound of a sobbing lady.

Now onto the dogs. The dogs are a traditional symbol of death. There where also the interesting twins of the old seer hag. When she started feeding her doggies with a spoon, we had a good guess of her state of mind. As for Arthur’s temporary pet dog, he warmed Arthur whenever the Woman in Black approached. That way she could not take him by surprise. The little doggie had more balls than all the guys in the film. He truly did not fear the ghost woman. In any case, the Woman in Black is a 5 stars worthy horror movie. I recommend it to all neglectful parents.