How the hell did The Woman In Black get a 12A rating????

[Elderflower14]

I'm now watching it in terror for the third time. Who the hell thought the 12A rating was appropriate??? 🙄 🙄 😲 😲 😲 😲

The film scared the shit out of me at the tender age of 40. And I'm not really jumpy at films: loved the Shining, laughed through The Exorcist. Didn't like Event Horizon though.

?? I was so disappointed by it. Sat waiting to be scared and wasn't at all

I saw Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children which is a 12, and complained about it, as almost all of the children i had taken found it really frightening. I also thankfully didnt take my then 12 year old to see Suffragette, another 12 with content far too adult.
Absolutely ratings are much less strict than they were when i was early teens.

The bit when they exhume the body from the mud and lay it on the bed, and what happens next scared me shitless!
However, I watched The Blair Witch Project like this thinking it was boring, predictable tripe.
People are unpredictable beasts.

A colleague once bought it for a whole school reward day showing. I sat through it 3 times and managed to not look at the screen for almost all of it. Kids were bloody terrified.

It’s just a ghost story. Bit jump-scarey, but I can see why it’s a 12A.

I'm not one for scary films but thought I'd give the DR one a go at the cinema. Spent most of the time with my eyes barely open 'cause I didn't think it was the done thing to watch it through the gaps in your fingers!!

Remember at one point in the film where DR goes to investigate something scary, someone in the cinema shouted "Don't forget your wand, Harry".

That film terrified me! I read that the producers cut out everything they needed to to make it a 12

Most horror movies should have a 56A rating on them so I can't go.

Seriously it's a 12!?

If it weren't for the fact that I share a bed with DH I would have slept with the lights on after watching TWIB.

Tbf I have an over active imagination and I'm proper Derren Brown victim fodder

The original version of the film - not the Daniel Radcliffe one-is both much better and much scarier, as PP have said. I think it's much closer to the book, which is also pretty freaky...

When I watched it with DP it was a really warm night. I went to bed issuing dire threats not to play silly beggars when he came upstairs. I went to sleep on top of the duvet. DP crept into the bedroom and up to the bed and ran his finger down my spine 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔
I very swiftly rolled over and told him to fuck off which really shocked him as I rarely use the f word!
I didn't find the second film set in WW2 scary at all.

I find it really interesting that it seems to be hardened horror/ghost film watchers that find it really frightening and those of us who are usually scaredy cats horror film avoiders didn't find it scary at all. Heard that a few times now about WIB.

Like the example above ^ I found Blair Witch (original one) really I nerving and terrifying in places. Although that might've been the unique, at the time, marketing that surrounded it.

Having seen the play the film was disappointing.

I once took a group of 40 American teenagers to see the play in the West End, they all scoffed on the way in laughing at how a "play in the theatre can't be scary." By the interval they were terrified. By the end of it they were clinging to one another. The ate their words! Such good theatre.

I agree, however, I found the play to be far worse.

The 1989 version was on ITV on Christmas Eve that year. DB recorded it because we had to go to midnight mass. He still has the tape.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black_(1989_film)

I've decided a while ago to never watch a horror film again, as they affect me so much.
TWIB play is one of those reasons. There's a bit right at the end that only I seemed to see, and it still plays on my mind now

I've read the book, seen it on tv, seen the play and the film and I still don't get it. I've tried all the versions expecting to be alarmed but no. There's something wrong with me as its remarkably successful in all its forms.