The Woman in Black
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds and Janet McTeer
Directed by: James Watkins
14A: frightening scenes, not suitable for children
Running time: 95 minutes
Rating: Three and a half stars
The desire to be frightened is a strange impulse that nonetheless has created careers for everyone from John Carpenter to the people who design roller coasters. It’s also proving a lucrative genre for Daniel Radcliffe, who — fresh from vanquishing a frightening foe in the Harry Potter series — stops shaving, looks grief-stricken, and puts on the cloak of a doting father in The Woman in Black, an old-fashioned ghost story.
It’s a good vehicle for Radcliffe, even though he’s never quite persuasive as a grown-up parent: He has a look of perpetual adolescence, like a more sorrowful Hugh Grant. Still, it’s his charisma that is likely to draw a younger audience to a Gothic haunted-house tale that has none of the trappings — torture, exploding bodies, imperilled teenagers — of the modern horror film.
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