Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33925 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-08-08
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Customer Reviews

This film ruined my childhood!
Im a fully grown adult male for petes sake!

It matters not! Even now at 28 years old, I only have to think back to the Christmas of 1989, then aged 11, where I sat and watched "The Woman in Black" with no adults present, to send myself into a state of fear and panick.

After that, every incident of cowering under the sheets in bed at night was due to this film, I spent every year until the arrival of the internet asking pretty much everyone I met if they had seen the film that Christmas. No one had, and I almost
started to think that I had seen it in a nightmare at one point.

When I finally got a copy, just weeks ago, it brought the fear back in seconds.
I would go as far as to say that this is THE most chilling supernatural horror every produced.
Seriously, dont watch it if you are easily scared, or have children around you.

You could ruin their childhoods too.

Genuinely spine chilling film.
This is one of the creepiest, spookiest ghost stories ever filmed. Adapted from Susan Hill's book of the same title, the tale centres around a young lawyer sent to settle the estate of a deceased old lady. At the funeral, he sees what he thinks is another mourner, a woman dressed all in black. When he mentions this to others however, he gets a strange reaction and quickly realises all is not as it seems. Whenever this woman appears, so local legend says, a child will die. From then on, things become more and more tense as he becomes haunted by this mysterious woman.
This production uses no special effects or fancy sets and to be honest, I think it would have detracted from the film if there had been. Instead, the viewer is left to concentrate purely on the story which becomes increasingly tense as it develops. There are several moments that will make you jump or send a shiver through you. Watch it alone with the lights off if you dare!

Another terrified adult!
Like many other people, I first watched this in 1989 on Christmas Eve. I was 11, and it scared me to death.
I always kept and eye on the schedules so I could get my friends to watch it and see if I was just being a coward, and when it came back on again, I got my sister in law to watch it, not telling her about the infamous scene! I've never seen anyone scream or jump so much!

I hunted for ages on the internet and eventually found a copy of it to watch with my husband, and that was a big mistake!
It was still just as chilling, and hasn't really dated.
The Woman is so frightening, I can't look at her face or her silhouette!
I have to keep chanting "it's just Miss Lemon from the Poirot mysteries!" but it doesn't help.

As for the final scene - good grief. Horrible!

I got it off the shelf to watch at Christmas, but it's just sat there as I'm too scared. I know that when I watch it, I won't be able to sleep at night, or get out of bed in the dark.
Pathetic but true!

Thoroughly recommended, even more so in this day of gory, trashy horror.
A real story with pace, character and genuine fear.