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Information
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 102 min.
- Director
- Herbert Wise
- Genres
- Mystery, Horror
- Rating *
- 7.3
- Votes *
- 3,696
- Checks
- 602
- Favs
- 31
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 5.1% (1:19)
- Favs/dislikes
- 6:1
Top comments
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samoan
Better than the remake, not amazing, really slow. One great scene that gave me the creeps but otherwise not much that is scary. 6 years 2 months ago -
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Siskoid
I'm not familiar with the The Woman in Black's source material - a ghost story penned by Susan Hill - but the 1989 adaptation is pretty chilling, a haunting that drives one into madness. Set in the Edwardian era, a young lawyer is sent to take care of a dead woman's estate, and is visited by spectres of a bygone tragedy. The location for this is incredible - I can't believe it's real. More incredible still, perhaps, is how that little dog follows the directions of our man so well, being a loaner and all, but whenever a pet is part of a horror narrative, I feel like there's always extra suspense. There's one surprising scare, but otherwise, this is far more about sustaining a creepy paranoid mood, and it succeeds at that. I at first thought I'd seen Robert Wise's name flit across the screen and thought myself in good hands. The director was actually Herbert Wise, who directed I, Claudius, so I wasn't in bad ones after all. 2 days 12 hours ago
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