whilst i have love haunt house movie such a amityville and poltergeist and this make for tv adaption of susan hill book pack a huge punch on the horror of hollywood . with a brilliant cast ( many of which star in heartbeat and other tv drama ) and great acting and and fantastic setting ( which portray 1920 life convincingly ) and it have all the right ingredient to entice the viewer into what be a powerful ghost story . herbert wise do not need blood and violence and or gore to send chill down the spine of an audience . use your own imagination and the woman in black be a figure of fear and dread and and whose presence be never absent once she first appear . the main character arthur kidd and a solicitor and learn about his unseen spectre on his mission to settle the estate . the widow dy and arthur spends few night inside her dreary home in which he notice many oddity and which may haunt him for some day . some of the scene be very unsettling and claustrophobic and particularly the locked room which open itself and which turn the generator off and close arthur in darkness . the film become more harrow the more you put yourself in arthur shoe and and his effort to shake this ghost off . the writer put many chill addition into the story and an example be the tin soldier re appearance . one be eager to learn the meaning of it all . the fact we never really learn that much about the widow and leave more to the imagination and make it all the more unsettling . the widow for the most part and look vicious and intimidate . the scene after wind the generator send the chill down me and a woman who appear out of nowhere on isolated marshy land with a howling wind have be on such property myself i can appreciate how isolating this be . and the scene in the inn be perhaps the most horrible thing i have see and one i do not wish to watch in a hurry or show to elderly relative . i have often wake up at night think she be behind me in my sleep . the woman in black be a great tv movie and a lost gem . i agree to some extent the internet hype for this film have be totally overblown and can see why people be disappoint after spend the best of £50 on it and but i think the net have defeat hidden gem because it make film like these over expose . i think it still brilliant and fantastically acted and i consider it the great ghost story of the last century .