Full Review: It's hard to predict whether someone will find a movie scary. One movie may be scary to you, while the person you're watching it with finds it boring and not at all frightening. Horror, like comedy, is subjective, and it's often better to stick with a particular style than try to appeal to a broad audience.
The Woman in Black succeeds because it knows what kind of horror movie it wants to be, a gothic horror light on gore, heavy on suspense and atmosphere. This might not be everyone's cup of tea, some of you might not even like tea, but it's good tea, and that's where I'll end the metaphor. It's based on the novel by Susan Hill, which had previously been adapted into stage play and TV-movie.
