Since the production company of Hammer Films has been resurrected a couple of years ago they've managed to produce two strong movies with the solid The Resident and the splendid Let Me In remake. With their third release they've started embracing the period horror roots with The Woman In Black, a ghost story set 100 years ago, with unsolved deaths, restless spirits, oddly behaving residents of remote villages and a jolly splendid, spooky, deserted mansion house.
The production feels contemporary but still looks pleasingly period authentic, it's tensely edited and classily told, the acting is fine (including a restrained and largely non-verbal performance from the often stiff Danial Radcliff) and the mystery satisfying...although the ending is somewhat obvious. Great stuff which leads Hammer in the right direction if they are ever to re-embrace their roots doing period, blood soaked Dracula adaptations.
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