one of the most influential horror movie in my life

Better than the remake, not amazing, really slow. One great scene that gave me the creeps but otherwise not much that is scary.

I'm not familiar with the The Woman in Black's source material - a ghost story penned by Susan Hill - but the 1989 adaptation is pretty chilling, a haunting that drives one into madness. Set in the Edwardian era, a young lawyer is sent to take care of a dead woman's estate, and is visited by spectres of a bygone tragedy. The location for this is incredible - I can't believe it's real. More incredible still, perhaps, is how that little dog follows the directions of our man so well, being a loaner and all, but whenever a pet is part of a horror narrative, I feel like there's always extra suspense. There's one surprising scare, but otherwise, this is far more about sustaining a creepy paranoid mood, and it succeeds at that. I at first thought I'd seen Robert Wise's name flit across the screen and thought myself in good hands. The director was actually Herbert Wise, who directed I, Claudius, so I wasn't in bad ones after all.