She never forgives and she never left
The US release of The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death has recently been brought forward to make it almost day-and-date with the UK, and heralding that that decision is a slew of new material from Hammer and Relativity Media. The follow-up to James Watkins' 2012 original stars Phoebe Fox, Helen McRory and Jeremy Irvine, all of whom are in action in this trailer and set of stills.
A couple of curious decisions there. Given the film's British WWII setting, the American-accented child providing the voiceover in that clip's second half feels a bit incongruous to our ears. And there's also an attempt to mine a glorious ghost story from the past: that eerie song about the weeping willow comes from Jack Clayton's 1961 Turn Of The Screw adaptation The Innocents.* Whether it's really the song record played on the gramophone as the trailer suggests, or whether it's just for the benefit of the trailer, remains to be seen.{Woman Black Angel Death Stiils}
The new film takes place decades after Daniel Radcliffe’s ill-fated visit to Eel Marsh House. The Second World War is raging in Europe, and teachers Eve (Fox) and Jean (McRory) have been tasked with evacuating a dozen Blitz orphans from London to the isolated North-Eastern coastal village of Crythin Gifford, and specifically to that isolated house on the causeway, uninhabited for years apart from the malevolent shade of a certain Jenette Humfrye stalking its hallways. Also new to the area is RAF bomber pilot Harry (Irvine), posted not far from the teachers and the children. But he has a secret...
Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders) is the director, working from a screenplay by Jon Croker. The Woman In Black: Angel Of Death is out in the UK on January 1. America gets it a day later.
*The lyrics are by Paul Dehn, trivia fans: writer of the screenplays for Goldfinger and most of the original Planet Of The Apes sequels.
from Empire News
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