The Woman in Black
Blu Ray
Elegant and precise, this film brings stylish fun and precision.
Sony's transfer delights with exquisite shadow detail, visual depth, and exceptional clarity, revealing the finest textures in both gloom and daylight with precision.
The audio delivers precise, impactful bass with clear distinction in highs and mids, ensuring tight, effective sound without distortion.
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.
The film is a polished yet unoriginal addition to cinema, elevated by a burgeoning actor's strong, expressive performance.
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
- Video90
- Audio90
This is another top-tier Sony transfer, and viewers are in for a wonderful treat of well-defined shadows and visual gloom....
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....
- Extra40
- Movie60
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...
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...
- Total70
But it maneuvers through all of those recycled areas with the precision of a luxury automobile, purring and making its turns on a dime....
- Video90
- Audio80
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...
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....
- Extra20
- Movie80
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...
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....
- Total70
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...