opinions?
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olavirta — 14 years ago(May 27, 2011 01:35 AM)
Watched the woman in black yesterday first time and didnt know anything about the movie. Pretty laid back haunted atmosphere through the film but then that bed scene came and damn it scared me. i screamed like a little girl. Someone said here that it was little too long and I agree. By the way when Kidd helds Tooveys dog in the pub they look like Tintin and Milo.
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Karma_Kramer — 14 years ago(September 21, 2011 07:40 PM)
As I said in another thread. This scene terrified me when I saw it as a kid. But seeing it recently, it didn't seem like such a big deal. I had remembered her face looking a lot older and ghastly looking, but it looked relatively normal. I also had remembered the woman letting out an ear splitting scream , but it was little more then a subdued shriek. I guess it's just one of those things where certain key scenes of a movie are not at all what you remembered, several years later.
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demonbarber — 14 years ago(December 10, 2011 01:07 AM)
Well,.YES!
I've seen a lot of horror movies and I love the "creepy" ones - without much blood, cutting throats, torturing and stuff. It's boring and it can make you sick.
BUT, this scene made me cover my eyes for the first time in my life! When I was a child, my granny used to do that for me :))
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indranee19 — 14 years ago(February 06, 2012 06:54 PM)
I haven't seen the remake. Is it in there?
This scene really scared me. But it's not as scary as the one where he's watching her stare at him over the field and then advance slowly, step by step, toward the house. THAT scared me no end.
"Fear not for the future; weep not for the past." Percy Bysshe Shelley -
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Hazelrigg — 13 years ago(October 27, 2012 08:59 PM)
im, 26. didnt know anything about it before watching. having headphones, deeply involved with story and atmosphere.
that scene was scary as hell. and i saw the makeup was unconvincing and all that, but the build up, the sound she makes and her fierce intensity in her face, and his reaction all in combination scared me.
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pablo-taylor — 13 years ago(November 04, 2012 12:39 AM)
Why is the make-up 'unconvincing'?
It's just a woman's face.
People do talk nonsense about older television, similarly one of the reviews on this page describes it as being a 'cheap TV-movie' when in fact it was a classy production by 1989 ITV standards and I've read similar comments regarding the (actually very expensive) Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series from youngsters coming at it from the POV of the BBC's
Sherlock- the style of television may have changed over the last couple of decades but that doesn't mean everything made before 2000 was cut-rate, it's just different to what modern audiences are used to.
As for 'that scene'; I was a 13 year-old already familiar with horror fiction/movies when this was first broadcast and it made me jump at the time largely because I didn't know it was coming and the film lulls you into a false sense of security with it's earlier purely atmospheric non-confrontational scares. Having said that, watched 23 years later I'm not sure the production holds up entirely - the scenes at Eel Marsh House and on the causeway remain creepily effective but elsewhere it's rather drawn-out and not entirely convincing, especially when the story returns to London and Rawlins isn't really a strong enough actor to hold centre-stage and fully elicit audience sympathy.
I still love Spider, though
- the style of television may have changed over the last couple of decades but that doesn't mean everything made before 2000 was cut-rate, it's just different to what modern audiences are used to.
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londomollari — 13 years ago(November 26, 2012 04:43 PM)
is the bed scene really that terrifying?
Hell yes! I did not know anything about this when I saw it on first broadcast. I don't frighten easily at all but this has stayed with me for 23 years! Haven't seen it again since, but would like to.
Saw the stage play tonight and could not remember the story - the theatre could not recreate that terror for me. Look forward to seeing the movie version - but would love to see this again.
The funny thing is - it's Miss Lemon from Poirot! She is a bit scary anyway! -
londomollari — 13 years ago(December 01, 2012 11:32 AM)
No, it didn't really
I am not easily scared but I thought the play would be really creepy rather than frightening. The main problem for me was the young lead who was trying too hard and therefore my suspension of disbelief crashed.
However, it was well produced and many members of the audience screamed and there was a lot of nervous giggling. I do find I prefer a good film or TV play to a stage production. Probably down to just my personal preference.