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A Few Details For THE WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGELS OF DEATH Emerge!!
THIS piece at ShockTillYouDrop offers a few details about the WOMAN IN BLACK sequel we heard about a while back.
Seized by the government and converted into a military mental hospital during World War II, the sudden arrival of disturbed soldiers to Eel Marsh Harsh has awoken its darkest inhabitant. Eve, a beautiful young nurse, is sent to the house to care for the patients but soon realizes she must save them from more than their own demons. Despite Eve’s efforts to stop her, one by one they fall victim to the Woman in Black.
I wasn't altogether sold on the notion of a follow-up to THE WOMAN IN BLACK when I initially learned about it - the first film seemed so well-considered and carefully balanced, I kinda hated to have its wonderful aftertaste diluted. However, I will say that I find the above rather notion interesting and quite promising. I have a tremendous fascination with both ghosts and World War II, so colliding the conceits here pretty much sends me over the moon.
No word yet on a director for ANGELS OF DEATH, nor the project's ETA. We do know, however, that Jon Croker will script based upon original ideas developed with WIB novel author Susan Hill.
More as we know more...
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movie was pretty good. I'm not sure about a sequel
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June 13, 2012, 10:20 a.m. CST
Here comes the women in black, afterlife defenders.
by Tikidonkeypunch
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June 13, 2012, 10:21 a.m. CST
But does the woman in black get to have sex till climax with a white man?
by Tikidonkeypunch
Otherwise it's racist. >:(
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June 13, 2012, 10:30 a.m. CST
Fuck children- I like to kill adult patients now. Just have zombies do it if you're just randomly making up bullshit.
by UltraTron
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June 13, 2012, 10:34 a.m. CST
Oh well they'll write something. Overall I found the first one to have good production and sound design. A
by UltraTron
few earned jumps and several cheap ones. Ultimately I wasn't invested in his character. He's jumping into pits of blackest hell and I wasn't afraid for him.
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...along with both film versions, but why this? No need but greed.
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Are the Kids in the town that escape her the first time around!! DUN DUN DUN!!
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June 13, 2012, 10:47 a.m. CST
I like to show Hammer love, but not sure WiB is worth a sequel. OK flick...
by obijuanmartinez
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this is just another story about some mousy chick (I'm looking at you Danny R) being run roughshod by the spirit of a psycho beeyatch for the duration ultimately culminating in her failure to save anyone and a lame and most non-heinous demise. Well, at least they could then follow that one up with a third movie where a young family buys the house and the WIB sucks the baby into the TV set, wherin they must then employ a height-challenged paranormal investigator to figure out how to get her back and find out that the house was built on an old burial ground which then implodes and is sucked into the ground quicker than an SUV sliding into a sinkhole in Florida... At least that would be original. Just sayin'
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Did you see the same movie I did? I thought The Woman in Black was abysmal. Nothing happened for most of its run time - it was almost completely Daniel Radcliffe walking around the huge house by himself after he hears weird noises the whole time. That kind of film only works when you really, REALLY care about a character, but I didn't care about him nearly enough to want to see just him walking around. I certainly wasn't left with any "wonderful aftertaste" when it was over, merely relief.
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June 13, 2012, 11:24 a.m. CST
"I have a tremendous fascination with both ghosts and World War II"
by buggerbugger
You should seek out 'Sapphire & Steel: Assignment 2', if you haven't seen it. A haunted railway station, a ghost hunter and a 'darkness' feeding on the resentment of the dead combatants of WW1 and WW2. Great stuff, it's on for just under 4 hours, IIRC? In fact, seek out 'Sapphire & Steel' full stop.
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All these 'modern' ghost stories where the ghosts rack up a big body count....they're ridiculous. Ghost stories are supposed to be mysterious, not full of stunty-death scenes. If ghosts could kill people it would not be mysterious, everyone would know it. Go watch 'The Uninvited' with Ray Milland. Horror, no. Mystery, yes. And a helluva lot better movie than 'The Woman in Black'.
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June 13, 2012, 11:41 a.m. CST
Remember when ghost stories were just one cool movie. Not attempts at a new Freddy or Jason?
by Pixelsmack
WiB was a great stand alone film and concept. Leave it alone. Don't ruin the character like they did Samantha in The Ring. Remake these classics sure, but then STOP.
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June 13, 2012, 11:44 a.m. CST
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh
by IWasInJuniorHighDickhead
it didn't follow the original, and they're making up a sequel that didn't exist, so why couldn't they call it something else and let someone who actually wanted to make the film make it???
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June 13, 2012, 11:53 a.m. CST
"Don't ruin the character like they did Samantha in The Ring."
by buggerbugger
Samara. Did you ever see what they did to the original character, Sadako, in the 'Ring' series? They went in an even dafter direction than the US series. And then there's the upcoming 'Sadako 3D', with the character going from haunting videotapes to haunting the internet. Who's writing this crap? They might as well have Sadako possessing MechaGodzilla and having a face-off with the Transformers.
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now THAT movie I'd go see!!!
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The actual 'The Woman in Black' is the antithesis of this film version. There's an old BBC adaptation available that is absolutely fantastic.
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Milk it.
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That film had class.
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I know a "Big Hollywood Producer" who would like to speak with you in detail about your ideas regarding this Ring/Godzilla crossover universe. Do you think we could work a giant spider in there somewhere?
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June 13, 2012, 1:12 p.m. CST
"Do you think we could work a giant spider in there somewhere?"
by buggerbugger
Are we talking biological or mechanical? Either could work, I suppose. Beware... MechaTarantula!
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Well at least Radcliffe is not in it. I don't usually mind it too much, but in the Woman in Black he was TOTALLY miscast! He looked WAY TOO YOUNG! http://wp.me/p19wJ2-sU
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Only with mental patients instead of kids (same difference) and the second world war instead of the Spanish civil war. Ho-hum...
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June 13, 2012, 3:05 p.m. CST
If you want true British horror, just watch any one of those God awful Russell Brand specials.
by Christian Sylvain
They'll give you nightmares for a week.
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What's the deal with Kid With Mouth Open?? Ever since The Grudge everyone seems to think that if you have a ghost in a movie you have to have Kid With Mouth Open. Is that scary?? Oooh - kid. Then BAM!! Kid has their mouth open!!! OOOOOHHHH scaarrry. I guess Kid With Mouth Open really gets to some people. Woman In Black, despite everything good that it had going on for it, leaned on Kid With Mouth Open way too much - even resorting to, yes, Woman With Mouth Open for its scares. Just lame and over used. Jody the Pig in the Amityville remake had it, that horrible Goyer movie, The Unborn had it. Everyone has it. Newsflash: Kid With Mouth Open is NOT SCARY. Please, please, please stop using it and find some real techniques for scariness in horror movies. Please. Please, super-please. It's worse than shaky-cam. Really.
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June 13, 2012, 3:37 p.m. CST
I quite enjoyed WIB, but they're going about this the wrong way.
by kevred
Forcing a sequel is going to paint them into a corner, because how much more of this particular story will people want to see? We know the mystery now, so there's no mystery. Instead, they should take the approach that the Hammer of old took, and make an ongoing series of films with similar creepy vibes, but unconnected stories. Pick a few key actors and make them revolving protagonists and antagonists. People like things that are reliable. A lot of people like watching, say, Radcliffe in a film. They could establish an almost Harry Potter-like sense of warm, reliable familiarity if they develop a consistent vibe and cast that people will trust to be enjoyable. The success level won't be huge, but it will be more than substantial enough to keep the enterprise going. But a sequel? That just makes me think of Blair Witch Project 2. Dead end.
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I saw it, but I was fucking shitfaced drunk at the time. So the only things I recall were Harry Potter being a truly terrible actor and some nice visuals. Jane Goldman wrote it, so it was probably at least decent.
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How 2 guys on stage with a bare amount of props can scare a packed theatre was mesmerising.
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That's funny, I guess we're two of a kind!! In that respect I'll watch it when it arrives on Blu-ray, cause i love me some moody horror!
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...come on....you know you were thinking it.
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June 13, 2012, 7:13 p.m. CST
Your Girl's Face As I Eat Her Out > Prometheus > Your Girl's Face As You Eat Her Out > Avengers > Your Mom's Face
by performingmonkey
Emma Watson surely a shoe-in for Woman In Black 2? You know it makes sense!
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So what else is new in Hollywood?
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...this is where they send the marines in?
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June 14, 2012, 7:49 a.m. CST
Did This Solid But Certainly Not Spectacular Movie REALLY Need A Sequel?
by Graphix67
The answer to that is: NO.
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June 14, 2012, 8:24 a.m. CST
Woman in Black II: The Rise of the Blackness and Woman-ness Rising
by Shankapotomus
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Also, after that terrible ending for Woman In Black, I don't think I want to see a sequel.
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She's a ghost nun now, folks!
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