The Woman in Black
What did they see?
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers.As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black.
- Director
- James Watkins
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $129M
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Cast
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How The Woman in Black actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
The Woman in Black appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Really Scary Horror Movies Ranked #10
Ranked #10 because the Woman in Black understands how much can be accomplished with an empty hallway, a distant figure and the feeling that something moved when you weren’t looking. Its old-fashioned ghost-story atmosphere does most of the frightening work.
A young lawyer travels to an isolated English village to settle the affairs of a deceased client. Inside her abandoned estate, he begins uncovering a tragedy connected to a mysterious woman whose appearance seems to predict something terrible.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Woman in Black returned 4.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $32M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $129M
- Release date
- Feb 3, 2012
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom
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