The Woman in Black

Blu Ray

  • Score
    66
    from 2 reviewers
  • Elegant and precise, this film brings stylish fun and precision.

    The Woman in Black
    2012
    95 min
    PG-13
    DTS-HD MA
  • Video
    76
  • Sony's transfer delights with exquisite shadow detail, visual depth, and exceptional clarity, revealing the finest textures in both gloom and daylight with precision.

  • Audio
    73
  • The audio delivers precise, impactful bass with clear distinction in highs and mids, ensuring tight, effective sound without distortion.

  • Extra
    46
  • Inside the Perfect Thriller: Making The Woman in Black, a self-praised HD featurette (approximately 10 minutes), offers insights from the cast and crew about the plot, characters, and locales.

  • Movie
    66
  • The film is a polished yet unoriginal addition to cinema, elevated by a burgeoning actor's strong, expressive performance.

    DTS-HD MA

    Director: James Watkins

    Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds

    Plot: A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

    Disc Release Date: 22 May 2012

    all scores

    Blu-ray.com review by Martin Liebman
    • Video
      90
    • This is another top-tier Sony transfer, and viewers are in for a wonderful treat of well-defined shadows and visual gloom....

    • Audio
      90
    • It offers good, deep, precision bass that remains tight at the bottom and both aurally and physically effective, for instance when Kipps searches out the source of a heavy, repeating thud in the house....

    • Extra
      40
    • Inside the Perfect Thriller: Making The Woman in Black (1080p, 9:31): "Perfect" may be more than a little self-aggrandizing, but this overview piece features cast and crew discussing the plot, the process...

    • Movie
      60
    • It's just another well-made film in a sea of well-made (and, to be sure, a whole lot of not-so-well-made) films that rely on the same tactics and a smooth fa�ade to cover over the fact that there's nothing...

    • Total
      70
    • But it maneuvers through all of those recycled areas with the precision of a luxury automobile, purring and making its turns on a dime....

    High-Def Digest review by M. Enois Duarte
    • Video
      90
    • The image is also highly-detailed with exceptional definition and clarity, especially in daylight sequences where we can clearly make out the smallest impressions on the stones in the village or see every...

    • Audio
      80
    • Yet, the track does a fantastic job by maintaining superb detailed clarity between the highs and mids, never distorting or sounding too bright in these sudden decibel changes....

    • Extra
      20
    • Inside the Perfect Thriller (HD, 10 min) — The EPK-style making-of featurette comes with the usual set of comments from cast & crew explaining the plot, characters and shooting locations, with lots of...

    • Movie
      80
    • In this respect, the still-maturing actor is quite excellent and convincing, carrying the entire film with ease and taking great command of the frame, hugely dependent on physical expression over dialogue....

    • Total
      70
    • From director James Watkins and writer Jane Goldman adapting Susan Hill's novel, the movie is a great deal of fun, returning to stylish elegance over a constant barrage of jump scares and sure to please...