In the attempt to save him, both he and Joseph are killed by the oncoming train. He sees the Woman in Black lure Joseph onto the tracks. Assuming that she has been pacified, Arthur meets Joseph and his nanny at the station. They bury Nathaniel with Jennet, though her voice echoes that she will never forgive the wrongs she suffered.

In an effort to lift the curse, Arthur and Sam find Nathaniel's body in the marsh and place it in his nursery, where Arthur lures Jennet. Arthur realizes that his son, who is coming to Crythin Gifford that night, is next. Elisabeth explains that the Woman in Black is Jennet, who claims the village children by having them take their own lives in penance for her own son being taken from her. When Arthur attempts to save Jerome's daughter, he sees the Woman in Black goading the girl into burning herself. In town the next day, Jerome's house catches fire. Inside, he sees an apparition of a woman hanging herself. Outside, he sees numerous dead children in the marshes, Victoria among them. From the window, he watches in horror as a boy crawls out of the mud in the rain. Jennet hanged herself in the nursery, vowing never to forgive Alice. Nathaniel later drowned in a carriage accident on the marsh and Jennet blames Alice for saving only herself and leaving the boy. Jennet demands to see her son Nathaniel, whom the Drablows have formally adopted due to her being mentally unfit. Victoria's father later tearfully accuses him of seeing 'that woman' at Eel Marsh.īack at the house, Arthur uncovers correspondence between Alice and her sister Jennet Humfrye. She too believes him to be responsible for Victoria’s death. Arthur later discovers Jerome’s young daughter barricaded in the basement for her safety.

That night, Sam reveals that he and his wife, Elisabeth, lost their young son to drowning. Two children enter the station with their sister Victoria, who has ingested lye, but she dies in Arthur's arms. The village constable dismisses his concerns. He hears sounds on the marshes of a carriage and a screaming child but sees no one on the causeway. Upon arrival, Arthur finds the villagers cold and local solicitor Jerome unwelcoming, but finds sympathy in wealthy landowner Samuel Daily.Īt Eel Marsh House, Arthur is distracted by odd noises, a bolted nursery, and a spectral entity in black funerary garb. Four years later, Arthur is instructed to visit Crythin Gifford to retrieve any documents left by Alice Drablow, the deceased owner of Eel Marsh House, an isolated and desolate estate on the marshland, before the sale of the house. In 1906, in Edwardian London, lawyer Arthur Kipps's son Joseph is born, but his wife, Stella, dies after childbirth. In the village of Crythin Gifford in 1889, three young girls playing in their nursery notice a presence in the room hypnotized and entranced, they jump to their deaths from the window. It was also commercially successful, grossing $130 million worldwide.Ī sequel, The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, was released on 2 January 2015, without the involvement of Radcliffe, Watkins or Goldman. The film received generally positive reviews with critics praising Radcliffe's performance, cinematography, direction, atmosphere and homages to Hammer's gothic horror films, calling it a 'solid ghost story'. The Woman in Black premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in London before being theatrically released in North America on 3 February 2012 by CBS Films and Alliance Films and in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2012 by Momentum Pictures. It attracted controversy after receiving a 12A certificate from the British Board of Film Classification, despite several cuts being made. Principal photography took place from September to December 2010 across England. The film was meant to be shot in 3D before those plans were scrapped. During July 2010, Radcliffe was cast in the lead role of Arthur Kipps.

A film adaptation of Hill's novel was announced in 2009, with Goldman and Watkins attached to the project. The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions, Alliance Films, Cross Creek Pictures and the UK Film Council. The plot, set in early 20th-century England, follows a young recently widowed lawyer who travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorising the locals. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey, and Liz White. It is the second adaptation of Susan Hill's 1983 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1989. The Woman in Black is a 2012 gothic supernatural horror film directed by James Watkins from a screenplay by Jane Goldman.

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