SummaryEngland, 1941 With London in the midst of the blitz, two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House. Seeking safety from the bombs in the remote coastal location, the group instead find themselves facing an evil far more frightening when their arrival awakens the Woman in Black.
SummaryEngland, 1941 With London in the midst of the blitz, two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House. Seeking safety from the bombs in the remote coastal location, the group instead find themselves facing an evil far more frightening when their arrival awakens the Woman in Black.
Set in 1940’s London during the war, the story is told about a of group young children orphans under care are having to seek refuge along with their carer Eve Parkins (Phoebe Fox) and the Head Mistress Jean Hogg (Helen McCrory) in Eel Marsh house which is tired and worn but holds a dark secret.
For many of the children their parents are now no longer able to take care of them due to other duties during the war, one of the child’s parents were both killed in an evening of air raids this was boy is called Edward (Oaklee Pendergast) after losing his mum and dad he hasn’t been able to speak to anyone, so he finds it easier to draw and write if he needs to communicate.
The plot of the film is very good and you warm to the main characters throughout, it has lots of jumpy scares and also a love story plus it has the scare factor, the camera work is also very good by keeping it dark and grainy which means you are trying to see and focus with whats going on screen and then something pops out at you to make you jump which is very good and its a Hammer Horror film so you know they are very good at doing that with their past work.
The film will play on your mind for hours afterwards, second guessing what you just saw in your room while your at home, so don’t turn out the lights at night as you wont be able to sleep.
The audience enjoyed the film with lots of screams and jumping off seats, it is totally a different take to the theatre version of Woman in Black but there is still elements to remember the greatness that a live performance on stage can do and make you scared, bumps in the night and rocking chairs still at the heart of the film.
Looking forward to buy the movie to watch at home in the dark, but I may go and watch it again before it goes and I suggest you do also.
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They've brought her back to milk another movie from the franchise. Watch out for Woman in Black lunchboxes, dolls and baby buggies. Derivative and disappointing of course.
The director, Tom Harper, seems less interested in allegory than in monotonous, conventional goosing, the kind that involves flickering lights and a creaky rocking chair.
Reliant on suspense rather than gore, this is functional middle-brow psychological horror and screenwriter Joe Croker finds plenty of tired haunted house tropes he’s happy to recycle in adapting material from Susan Hill’s original novel.
There will be those for whom Angel of Death provides precisely what they are after, but a couple of brief flashes of quality aren't capable of making the film anything close to creepy enough.
The darkened rooms and spooky fog are undeniably gorgeous. Teen horror buffs will be bored but design majors and sketchpad artists may find themselves inspired.
Going to get this out-of-the-way the main protagonists pronounces the woman in black's name wrong she's pronouncing it like Jeanette like Jeanette McCurdy when I name is Janet Humphry. Also the VERY unnecessary love story subplot in the **** was very out of place. Just because the main protagonist is female DOESNT mean there MUST BE a love interest. THANK THE TRAILER FIR NOT SPOILING A LOT because scenes in the trailer that looked like a match for the movie were edited so some scenes from the trailer didn't match the movie still leaving surprises.
Okay personal knit pick aside, I like how it's set during the was but everything is more F'd up in the village after Aurther and his son were killed in the first movie. I do feel as if this sequal was unnecessary I still found it enjoyable. There were some tension building moments but also me some cheap jumpscares. I like how it had a happy ending but it was obviously baited.
The movie is not really scary and he is pretty **** acting is not that bad but the scenario is not really good.There is barely no action and the ending where the little boy is suppose to die is just so **** the movie has a lot of issues but it is a little bit ****'s say that the first one was better.
The setting and style is all there, but with very poor lighting, little actual scares and a bland story, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is a sequel that should have never been. The first movie is great. But if you are looking for more the same, you won't find it here. Skip it.
The Womanin Black 2: Angel of Dearh is the textbook example of how a sequel can be so bad it ruins the original. Before I get into what I did not like about this movie, let me tell you what I liked about thr first one; good leas character, good villain, no generic horrror cliches. This movie did not have any of that. All the characfers were flat, the villain, while being the same villain from he original, is terrible, and it has so many stupoid cliches it is not worth watching.
The fact that this movie came out in the very beginning of January and now I'm reviewing it, well I tried to escape from January but it followed me...help me.
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death takes place 40 years after the initial haunting of the Eel Marsh House - when WWII threatens, a group of children finds themselves evacuated from London and placed in the house where it doesn't take long for the sinister presence to awaken once more.
To the people who don't know, I actually liked the first movie..a lot. The fact that the first film had jump scares in it, it still had some creepy and chilling scenes and I remember those more than the jump scares because it was more effective. Now we got the squeal and what a surprise it's got more jump scars and no more of that creepy atmosphere that made the first film watchable, wow horror directors these days have forgotten how to direct horror films.
Now let's start of with positive things in this movie and yes these actually some good things in the movie, would you believe that: The movie is shot really good as well and the acting in the movie isn't all that bad as I thought. Phoebe Fox did a good performance in this movie, she actually tried in this movie not like some actors or actress out there in these type of horror films that don't give a damn about they movie or they role.
Now for the **** ready: I am just sick and tried of jump scares, I mean they not scary it's just a loud nose that makes us jump because we didn't except it and that's not scary at all. Most of the time it's false jump scares them the freaking kids and after a while the jump scares deflate any attention to the film. F**k Jump Scares.
The lighting in the movie was hard to see at times, it was like Alien Vs. Predator Requiem were through out the film I couldn't see **** and the Women in Black 2 is the same.
Overall Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death has some positive things in it with the acting and some of the shots, but the rest completely ****. There was no need for a squeal, it's just a cash grab squeal that will be forgotten and for good reasons.