![]() ![]() Screenwriter Jane Goldman ( Kick-Ass, X -Men: First Class) both strips the original story and fleshes it out. There’s a macabre new opener (with shades of Antichrist), making horribly explicit the suffering that has been inflicted on the village. Gone are the Christmas-set prologue and the funeral which originally marked the first appearance of the woman. Watkins’s The Woman in Black takes bold strides away from the book, so we’re in the dark at every turn. She’s the diabolical dame of the title, taken up a notch in nastiness for the sake of the screen. Matters worsen when, undeterred by vigorous warnings, he insists on heading to the isolated Drablow estate where he finds himself terrorised by the spectre of a wronged woman, Jennet Humfrye (Liz White from TV’s Life on Mars, only ever fleetingly glimpsed ). ![]() However, once he arrives in the village the other residents seem wary and reluctant to assist him. ![]() During his train journey Arthur is fortunate enough to encounter a local, the prosperous and genial Mr Daily ( Ciarán Hinds, pictured below right). Radcliffe plays Kipps, a young lawyer and widower with a three-year-old son, sent by his employer Mr Bentley ( Roger Allam) to put in order the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow, of Eel Marsh House, Crythin Gifford. As its daring do-gooder, it features boy wonder Daniel Radcliffe, now a man and here a father who, in his continued battle against evil, is hardly distancing himself from the intrepid (or should that be accursed?) Potter. ![]()
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