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The Woman in Black

Synopsis

Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is a young lawyer who is depressed by the loss of his beautiful wife after giving birth to a son. His son, now grown to a toddler, draws pictures of him with a sad face. He is assigned to prepare a large house for sale on a marsh and travels to an obscure village where he is shunned by most of the townspeople. He visits the Eel Marsh House, the estate of the late Alice Drabow, to look it over, but finds his job has grown more perilous as it is haunted by the ghost of a woman scorned. He learns from the villagers that the ghost of the woman in black seeks revenge against their children because her child was taken away from her. Kipps is befriended by Sam (Ciaran Hinds) and his wife Elizabeth (Janet McTeer). They, too, have lost a son, and they help the lawyer to investigate the background of the estate and what happened.

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Details

Year: 2012
Type of project: Features
Running time: 95 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: James Watkins
Producer: Richard Jackson, Simon Oakes, Brian Oliver
Co-Producer: Ben Holden, Paul Ritchie, Todd Thompson, Sean Wheelan
Executive Producer: Neil Dunn, Guy East, Roy Lee, Nigel Sinclair, Tyler Thompson
Editor: Jon Harris
Screenwriter: Jane Goldman
Director of Photography: Tim Maurice-Jones
Production Designer: Kave Quinn
Composer: Marco Beltrami
Principal cast: Emma Shorey, Molly Harmon, Sophie Stuckey, Daniel Radcliffe

Genre

Action Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Hammer Film Productions

52 Haymarket
London,
SW1Y 4RP
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 3002 9510

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UK Film Council

British Film Institute
21 Stephen St
London
W1T 1LN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 1444

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