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

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It's scaring the life out of me

Oh my, Bithurt, that must have been a tough watch so soon into post-partum!

Did she think she was returning the favour, reuniting him and his son with his wife?

That's a thought Ilovemydog. That would make sense of the ending. Either that or she's just really wicked and nothing will appease her.

I thought she was reuniting tem too, because he was so sad.

Just read your link clowns, it's a bit of a difference!

We saw the stage version - not scary (family trip, lived in a haunted house as kids, used to try to scare each other when we lived at home). I love a good old melodramatic ghost story (The Monkeys Paw, anyone?).

The film version scared me the wee out of me (I am a wuss though). Not as bad as the original The Ring (which had me running down the hall at night to the loo for ages).

I quite enjoyed the Nicole Kidman creepy-victorian-house-and-creepier-kids film. Was it 'The Others'?

Yes, the Kidman film was 'The Others'. I loved that, especially the twist which I genuinely didn't see coming. Made me cry!

i LOVED The Others - see i can do horror - TWIB killed me though

The Others was amazing i would watch it again - i agree with rommell it had such a sad twist to it (i didnt see it coming either)

I love a good thriller.

Some horror films are good but zombies and demonic stuff usually creeps me out. I did like The Seventh Seal though. I have never seen Halloween, Friday 13th or that one with Linda Blair crawling over the ceiling and vomiting a lot.

I saw the film a while ago after friends told me how terrifying the stage show was.
I spent the hole film wondering why Daniel Radcliff didn't just pull out his wand and say 'Lumos'. I guess my dcs HP obsession have ruined him for me

I love good thrillers and horrors too - actually, fuck it to be honest I even like bad horrors, of which I have watched many. The only ones that really creep me out are the religious ones which I know is because I'm an ex-Catholic - that kind of conditioning never leaves you (or at least it doesn't leave me). Zombies don't usually scare me as such because it's so far removed from reality, but the opening scenes of 28 Weeks Later made me almost poo myself.

Ooh yes 28 Weeks Later is creepy. Cos they're not even dead, are they? So in theory...

Actually I'm not sure that TWIB was reuniting Arthur and his son with his wife. She couldn't have known that Arthur would go after him. She was probably just sacrificing another child.

And why could the other chap see all the ghosts of the children in the train window? What was that all about?

^Cos they're not even dead, are they? So in theory... grin^

Absolutely! Who knows what they're getting up to in secret labs all over the country? Also, they move quick - fast zombies? Zoombies?

Re the other man and the ghosts, it's ages since I saw the film and many years since I read the book but maybe 'He just got the shinin' boay'.

There was a TV adaptation years ago - on ITV late 80s I think - that gave me one of the few genuinely horrifying nightmares I'd ever had (normally I'm pretty good at recognising nightmares as such and "getting out" of them while still asleep IYKWIM - but not this one).

I then (stupidly) saw it on stage in a few years later - and that creeped me out too. Bad dreams again.

The Daniel Radcliffe film wasn't quite as bad IMO - watch through the fingers job but no nightmares thank god.

The book is also very scary.

There's something about it though it's a relatively simple plot which really "gets" to so many people. Not sure why it is but I've heard people cite it again and again as the most frightening thing they've seen.

Zoombies.

I was watching it in bed on the laptop last night. I live on my own but because I'm in a flat just off a main road and it's light and unspooky, don't ever feel creeped here. I was watching without my bedside light on but after about 20 mins had to turn it on to watch the rest. I don't believe in the supernatural but still found this really scary! The house was just so creepy - like it had everything in it from every horror film ever made! Eeek.

The TV adaptation was far superior to the film, and genuinely scary. It was also true to the book, which the film is not.

DD1 saw it on stage for GCSE drama. She didn't sleep for a week.

Maybe I should have got up a petition about it, and complained about the teacher to the DM?

I watched it on a plane, chock full of people with lights on and I was still terrified. I'm a wuss though. I don't normally watch horrors but I had a few hours to kill, it was only a 15 and it had Harry Potter in it. How bad can it be? That'll teach me!

The most two most atmospheric and frightening things I've seen are the original (b and w) version of 'The Haunting', and 'The Blair Witch Project'. You don't see anything 'scary', it's mainly done by sound and suggestion. The BBC adaptation of M. R. James'. 'Whistle, My Lad, and I'll Come to You' is pretty unnerving, too.

Saw the stage play in London - was the scariest think I have EVER seen!!

Thing, not Think!

Agree with others about the TV adaptation and ohmymimi I love all three of those films. I also like a fair few Japanese and Korean horrors for the same reason - it's all about building up suspense so that your own imagination can let rip, which is far more frightening than anything a film-maker can come up with.

Also, another terrifying thing about Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You is that it's played by Michael Hordern - you can't do that to Paddington!