Rajeev Masand gave this a rating of 3/5.

IMDB gave it a 7.2/10.

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe 
(and some other substantial yet unrecognisable actors)

Genre: Horror

4 Good reasons to watch WIB at the theatres.

Woman In Black revolves around one and only one thing – A woman in black. The story starts off with the main protagonist Arthur Cliffe( Daniel Radcliffe) a lawyer cum widower cum father of a 4 year old kid. Financially stretched, Arthur has to settle Eel Marsh House , land of a recently deceased client Alice Drablow or risk losing his job. Worried about the future of his son and unable to forget his dead wife, he sets off to complete the job, but as obvious, all is not well in horror town. Little kids die accidently, locals eye him with disdain, ghostly child apparitions jump out of the screen just as the suspense builds and the woman in black says hello to Arthur every 15 minutes. He stays over at the estate, reads letters and sees things that make him realise that there could be a connection between the ghost children and the deaths of local kids in the village.  Desperate to finish his job, he finds help in Sam Daily (Hinds) and his unstable, possessed wife, who warns him to stay away from the haunted estate or risk losing his son. 

Radcliffe in his first post-Potter adult role movie makes a desperate attempt at playing the role of a father with credible stubble. In the beginning ,his audacity at pursuing “the woman in black” and countless other ghostly apparitions is praise-worthy but after a while he appears emotionless .However the faultlessly furnished set piece of Eel Marsh House settles as a perfect score for a haunted house. With its superbly captured rocking chair, thumping noises, oddly tuned toys and sinister shadows, the house steals the spotlight from Radcliffe with a life of its own. This doesn’t suffice to retain the audience attention. What starts off in a seat-gripping, popcorn dropping way goes downhill as every feeble attempt to scare evokes only howls of laughter.

The final twist seals the fate of this horror flick. Take an extra-long intermission but don’t miss the closing scene.

Whether it got rounds of applause for the completely unexpected yet unnecessary twist or because the movie was over is anybody’s guess.

My verdict: Never believe a review. Go watch it for yourself.