Why on earth did I decide to watch The Woman In Black?

[Cocolepew]

It's scaring the life out of me

it scared me so much that I had to make DP come to the toilet with me in the night. for ages.

I hid behind my coat when I saw it at the cinema. I just couldn't bear it

I love the book so much, but I just couldn't do all the dying children you see at close hand in the film.

What a crap ending.

I've never seen it or read it but I just caught the end and it wasn't very nice.

Right, should go to bed but am far too freaked out! Think I will give Orphan a miss(!) will have to be Parenthood for the billionth time

Please can you help me out. Flipping bandwidth problems right at the end! I just got to the bit where Arthur's son was wandering off towards the railway lines. When I managed to get back to it, Arthur was stood holding his son and looking at his wife. I'm guessing that Arthur fell on to the line trying to rescue his son and they're all dead? Is that what happened. Thank you.

Yes nikki child on railway track, Arthur jumps down, grabs child, train turtles past, we think Arthur and child surveyed then see dead wife so they have all died! Harrah! I love a happy ending I don't remember that happening in the book but then I am so tired I can barely recall my own name

Sorry hurtles not turtles! They may have survived a turtle-ing train!

And survived not surveyed!

midgey thanks for that. I guessed that the train must have turtled over them both :)

So it seems like the Woman In Black didn't appreciate the efforts that Arthur went to to reunite her and her son. Just goes to show, whatever you do for some people it just isn't enough.

Same here curiosity got the better of me but my heart was racing the whole time

What's with all the dead children? Where did they come from?

Exactly nikki! That'll learn him though, eh?

I've seen the play and the film. The play is much better, the films crap.

Yup midget That experience would be a real life lesson (or death lesson in this case). Next time he's thinking of plunging himself neck deep into quicksand in order to re-unite the restless dead, he'll just not bother. Mind you, you might not need to do that sort of thing in the afterlife because no one is in limbo, wreaking vengeance on the living.

yes, by rights she should have been at rest now she was reunited....and not still wreaking vengeance....I had a few seconds of thinking there had been a twist and it was the rationalist friend who was actually the one wreaking vengeance, as it looked like the little boy was of and we hadn't seen the WIB...but then we did
rather a poor ending I thought
I agree he should have just boxed up all the papers and gone back to the village.

Also was not clear to me why him turning up at the village was automatically looked at so askance by the villagers? Was the WIB always provoked by strangers? It was a bit League of Gentlemen at times.

Sorry midgey, not midget. I'm now too knackered to type sensibly.

Book is better than the film, stage play is better (well, not 'better' per-se but scarier) than both of them IMHO. The film changed lots of the plot and the ending and relied too much on 'shock' and not enough on 'atmosphere'. (though was far better than most modern horror films with atmosphere despite that.)

One of my biggest ambitions is to find somewhere where the play is showing, (or even the film at a push) dress up as the woman in black and go and stand round the corner/in a dark corner of the theatre car park as people are leaving and scare the sh*t out of them! Lol. Is that really cruel?

Is she killing other children to make other people suffer? Or the villagers in particular?

Never mind. Just seen it on the plus one channel.

It doesn't stick to the book. It annoys me so much that I can't watch it again.

I went to the cinema to watch this. Near the end, my bloody phone alarm started going off! I must have set the alarm on it for some reason. It was at a scary bit as well.

I decided to watch it, sleep deprived & PND-y at the cinema on my first day out after having DS1 2 weeks earlier. Not my mosy smartest move

Yes I love I think she is tormenting them like she was tormented, but in the book, iirc, not so many children die and is the woman in black not actually still alive? Must find it and read it again. In the daylight!

Differences between book and film for anyone interested. Obviously it gives away endings so don't click if you don't want a spoiler.