The Woman in Black

Woman In Black, and it's not the sequel of Will Smith's Men In Black, no. It's the first movie starred by Daniel Radcliffe post Harry Potter era.
I instantly wanted to watch this movie ever since I saw the trailer awhile back ago. And yesterday I had the chance to watch it with my family.

Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter boy now takes adult role by playing as Arthur Knipp, a single parent whose wife died laboring their only son. Kipps has been having visions of her and is facing financial problems along with stress from the law firm he works at.
Knipp works as a solicitor in a law firm and he was on the verge of being unemployed, except if, he's up to the task finishing the paperwork for the estate of Alice Drablow, who owned an English manor known as the Eel Marsh House.


Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt and isolated, surveying the endless flat salt marshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway, somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. Here Mrs Alice Drablow lived - and died - alone after the death of her husband and her stepson Nathaniel. Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows. He only has a terrible sense of unease. And then, he glimpses a young woman with a wasted face, dressed all in black, at the back of the church in the graveyard to one side of Eel Marsh House. The locals not only cannot or will not give him answers - they refuse to talk about the woman in black, or even to acknowledge her existence, at all. So, Arthur Kipps has to wait until he sees her again, and she slowly reveals her identity to him - and her terrible purpose.

Although the plot itself is not that good, this movie offers surprise attacks to keep you entertained during the show. Many times you will jump on your seat as the ghost appears screaming, or just simply the raven flies out of the furnace. Unsurprisingly, group of teenagers who watch with me in the cinema loudly screams many many times, often I got extra shock from their terrifying horror screams rather than the movie itself. Recommended for couples on a date, especially if you have easily scared boyfriend : p

From his drool-inducing naked role in Equus, to Arthur Knipp in Woman in Black, I think Radcliffe has been maturing. Not to mention that stubble that makes him looks smoking hot hot hot :D
Although admittedly, Harry Potter movie franchise is not that good compare with the experience you might have reading the books.

Next in line: Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows