The Woman in Black

Released: 2012
Horror, Thriller
Director: James Watkins
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciaran Hinds
Running Time: A scary 95 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown: A lawyer travels to a small village where he finds a haunted home with a ghost that is truly evil.

Daniel Radcliffe plays Mr. Kibbs, who's a widower with one young son.  He's a lawyer without a lot of money and he's overdue in a lot of bills.  His firm sends him to a remote village to take care of an estate of a recently deceased eccentric woman.  No one in town wants him there and they don't have any trouble showing it.  He's really confused, but determined to see the house the villagers have told him to stay away from.  He needs to search it for documents or else he'll lose his job for sure.
Once arriving in a desolate marshland, he sees the only road leading to town gets covered over in water when the tide rolls in.
While spending the day there looking for papers, he starts to hear strange noises coming from the second level.  He cautiously goes to check it out, but some of the rooms are locked and he doesn't have the keys on him for the doors.  While he's looking out the windows to the family cemetery he sees a woman in black standing near the gravestones.  He runs down to check it out as he thought he was alone, but by the time he gets there, there's no one there.  And it just gets creepier and scarier from there.

I liked this movie a lot and it will not disappoint you if you're in the mood to get the crap scared out of you.  I only have one complaint where I lost the suspension of disbelief for just a moment, but it could've been done a little better.  It's a very small thing, as the rest of the film was really well done.
Go see it in a theater if you can, but it's also on pay-per-view right now.

4 and 1/2 out of 5 for a really compelling story, eerie settings, great acting, and some very effective little details that are missing from so many scary movies these days.