Reviewed By Matt Blythe, MoreHorror.com

The Woman in Black (1989) is one of those made for TV horror movies that although lacks the shine of a theatrical production manages to create a truly fearful atmosphere and deliver lasting chills. I’m thinking of the likes of It and Salem’s Lot – not perfect films by any means but they managed to scare the crap out of unsuspecting audiences when first beamed into family homes.

As you may have seen in the more recent adaption of the same novel by Susan Hill, The Woman in Black is a haunted house tale in which solicitor and bereaved young father, Arthur Kidd, travels to a bleak English coastal town to clear-up the estate of recently deceased Alice Drablow. She lived a long and miserable life cut-off from local folk, surrounded by marshland, in a decrepit mansion called Eel Marsh House. Kidd quickly discovers...