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'The Woman in Black' is Haunting

The actor also known as Harry Potter scares up some new material in a good old-fashioned haunted house movie.

Daniel Radcliffe plays a single parent who settles in for several nights of terror in The Woman in Black.

Radcliffe plays Victorian Solicitor Arthur Kipps, a widower whose wife died during the birth of his son four years earlier. Despite warnings from the terrified locals, he takes up residence in a creepy old house to handle the affairs of the now-deceased owner. When night falls, the supernatural world comes out, complete with wind-up toys, total darkness and spooky images of a ghost.

Radcliffe is suited for this kind of film. The Harry Potter franchise has made him an expert in the art of looking frightened, and this is one scary house.

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The Woman in Black is a creepy movie, leaving you wondering what is just beyond the camera framing. The pale makeup and creepy, old-fashioned clothing only add to the suspense and the horror. The only problem I had was, well, Radcliffe. When he is not looking frightened he still seems too puppyish to convince me that he is a parent.

So the flick-o-meter gives The Woman in Black a decent three out of five. 

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It's hard for me to see Radcliffe in anything other than Harry Potter, but he is committed to the character, and he does a good job in his first post-Potter role. It is pretty scary.

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