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The Woman in Black (2012 film)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
The Woman In Black

Theatrical release poster
Directed by James Watkins
Produced by Richard Jackson
Simon Oakes
Brian Oliver
Screenplay by Jane Goldman
Based on The Woman in Black by
Susan Hill
Starring Daniel Radcliffe
Ciarán Hinds
Janet McTeer
Sophie Stuckey
Liz White
Music by Marco Beltrami
Cinematography Tim Maurice-Jones
Editing by Jon Harris
Studio Cross Creek Pictures
Hammer Film Productions
Alliance Films
UK Film Council
Talisman Productions
Exclusive Media Group
Film i Väst
Filmgate Films
Distributed by Momentum Pictures (United Kingdom)
CBS Films
(United States)
Alliance Films (Canada)
Release date(s) 3 February 2012 (2012-02-03) (United States)
10 February 2012 (2012-02-10) (United Kingdom)


Running time 95 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom
Canada
Sweden[2]
Language English
Budget $15 million[3]
Box office $127,730,736[4]

The Woman in Black is a 2012 horror-thriller film directed by James Watkins and written by Jane Goldman, and is based on Susan Hill's novel of the same name. It was produced by Hammer Film Productions. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey, and Liz White. It was released in the United States and Canada on 3 February 2012 to generally positive reviews, and was released in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2012.[5][6]

Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
3.3 Post-production
3.4 Music
4 Marketing
5 Release
5.1 Critical reception
5.2 Box office
5.3 Home media
6 Sequel
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links


[edit] PlotIn the Edwardian era, in a small British town, three little girls playing tea party suddenly walk in a trance-like state to the window where they jump to their deaths. In London Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a penniless lawyer and the widowed father of four-year-old Joseph, is charged by his office to obtain the paperwork with which to sell a large manor - the bleak, isolated and desolate Eel Marsh House. Though he is hesitant to leave his son alone with a nanny, Arthur's boss warns him that if he fails to complete his duty he will lose his job.

Arthur is treated coldly upon his arrival and is barely able to get a room for the night, but he meets a kind local man named Samuel Daily (Ciarán Hinds) and his wife Elisabeth (Janet McTeer) who allow him to stay at their home. Arthur visits his legal contact, Mr. Jerome, who hurries him off with a stack of papers, telling him to return to London. Instead, Arthur pays the coachman to take him to Eel Marsh House, where he feels he will be able to more thoroughly complete his work. While there he is distracted by odd noises, footsteps and finally a brief appearance by a woman dressed in black. Arthur then hears a commotion in Eel Marsh, and runs out only to find his coachman waiting for him. As Arthur reports the incident to the police, three children come into the station; two boys carrying their little sister who had drunk lye and subsequently collapses in Arthur's arms and dies. That night, Sam reveals that he and his wife lost their son in a drowning accident, and Elisabeth - who has lost her mind with grief - carves a figure into the table of someone being hanged before she is sedated by Sam and their butler.

The next day Arthur decides to stay the night at Eel Marsh House to finish his work, and discovers letters from Alice Drablow, the home's recently deceased owner, and her mentally disturbed sister Jennet Humfrye (Liz White). Jennet claims Alice stole her son Nathaniel away from her and demands to let her see him. In subsequent letters it is revealed the boy drowned in the marsh and that Jennet blamed Alice before killing herself. Toys begin making noise upstairs in Nathaniel's room, where Arthur witnesses the spirits of the Woman in Black and a mud-covered Nathaniel. The next day, Arthur learns that the deaths are the work of Jennet Humfrye, the Woman in Black, who cursed the town after her child was taken from her. Elisabeth then indicates that Joseph, who is being brought to the town by his nanny the next day, is a target for the Woman in Black. In an attempt to lift the curse, Arthur decides to reunite Nathaniel and Jennet by finding Nathaniel's body in the marsh with Sam's help. They place his body in the Eel Marsh House, where Jennet finds him lying in his planned nursery bed, but as she leans over to view him, the spirit of her son speaks, "No! You're not my mother!" This angers Jennet before she leaves, but it appears to Arthur that she is satisfied. They place her son in the grave with her before covering it back up.

The next night, Joseph and Arthur are reunited and intend on immediately returning to London, but Joseph slips away while Arthur and Sam are busy talking. Arthur soon notices Joseph walking along the train tracks, and it becomes apparent that the curse will never be lifted. Arthur leaps onto the tracks in an attempt to save Joseph from an oncoming train as Sam looks on. Once it passes, Arthur calls out to Sam, but he and the nanny are gone and everything around them is dark. Joseph asks "Who's that lady?" Arthur looks and sees a glowing blonde woman in a white dress standing on the tracks, and smiles before responding "That's your Mummy." Stella Kipps takes the hand of her husband and the family disappears into the fog and darkness as Jennet looks at them with envy. Just as the film ends, her face slowly pivots towards the audience.

[edit] CastDaniel Radcliffe as Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer
Ciarán Hinds as Sam Daily, a local landowner
Janet McTeer as Elisabeth Daily, Daily's wife
Liz White as Jennet Humfrye, The Woman in Black
Roger Allam as Mr. Bentley, senior partner of Kipps' firm
Tim McMullan as Jerome, the local solicitor
Jessica Raine as Joseph's Nanny
Daniel Cerqueira as Keckwick, the carriage driver
Shaun Dooley as Fisher, village innkeeper
Mary Stockley as Mrs Fisher
David Burke as PC Collins, village constable
Sophie Stuckey as Stella Kipps, Arthur's wife
Misha Handley as Joseph Kipps, Arthur's son
Aoife Doherty as Lucy Jerome, Jerome's daughter
Victor McGuire as Gerald Hardy, a villager
Alexia Osborne as Victoria Hardy, Hardy's daughter
Alisa Khazanova as Mrs. Drablow
Ashley Foster as Nathaniel Drablow, The Woman in Black's son
Sidney Johnston as Nicholas Daily, Daily's son
Molly Harmon, Ellisa Walker-Reid & Emma Shorey as the Fisher's daughters

The Devil Inside (film)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
The Devil

Theatrical release poster
Directed by William Brent Bell
Produced by Matthew Peterman
Morris Paulson
Executive Producers:
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Steven Schneider
Starring Fernanda Andrade
Simon Quarterman
Evan Helmuth
Suzan Crowley
Music by Brett Detar
Cinematography Gonzalo Amat
Editing by William Brent Bell
Tim Mirkovich
Studio Insurge Pictures
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) January 6, 2012 (2012-01-06)

Running time 87 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1 million[2]
Box office $101,386,096[3]

The Devil Inside is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by William Brent Bell, and written by Bell and Matthew Peterman. It is a documentary-style film about a woman who becomes involved in a series of exorcisms during her quest to determine what happened to her mother, a woman who murdered three people as a result of being possessed by a demon. Produced by Peterman and Morris Paulson,[4] the film stars Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, and Suzan Crowley, and was released theatrically on January 6, 2012.

The film topped the US box office on its opening weekend, yet dropped drastically in the second week, before disappearing completely from the box office top ten.[5] This might have been caused by the fact that there was no preview screening for the press, which subsequently panned the movie after its premiere.[6] Additionally, the audience reception was very negative. Despite this, the film was a huge commercial success, grossing roughly $100 million.

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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Background
4 Reception
5 See also
6 References
7 External links


[edit] PlotOn October 30, 1989, Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) committed a triple murder during an exorcism performed on her. The Catholic Church became involved, and she has since been in a Catholic psychiatric hospital in Rome. The film shows a news story and police investigation showing the three members of the clergy whom she murdered. Her daughter, Isabella, learned of the murders from her father, who died three days after telling her.

Twenty years later, Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) is in the process of filming a documentary about exorcisms and, to find out more about her mother, she visits a school in Rome. She meets two priests, Ben (Simon Quarterman) and David (Evan Helmuth). Ben and David take Isabella with them on an exorcism performed on Rosalita (Bonnie Morgan). They bring along medical equipment to determine if it's possession or mental illness. Rosalita attacks the crew after spouting out obscene remarks in different languages and accents. She calls Isabella by her name, despite not knowing her. Eventually, they get her under control.

When Isabella goes to visit her mother, Maria, in the asylum, she finds that her mother speaks in different accents and has paintings all over the walls. She has inverted crosses carved into her arms and her bottom lip. Maria tells Isabella that killing a child is against God's will, then lets out an ear-shattering scream. Isabella tells David and Ben that she had an abortion years ago and her mother had no way of knowing that—another sign that showed possible possession. As the crew prepares to perform an exorcism/analysis on Maria, David worries about losing his job, since the Church does not authorize exorcisms without undeniable proof that the patient is indeed possessed. During the procedure, Maria mentions knowing what Ben did in the past, as well as Isabella's child. She breaks free of her restraints and sends Ben flying into the door, also knocking David to the ground. The doctors rush in shortly after.

After analyzing the data from the video and audio files, they present the evidence to the Church. David shows many signs of stress, as Ben plays the audio files over and over, listening to the part where Maria says "I know what you did". Ben then finds that there are four different demons speaking in unison in a different clip. David is to perform a baptism at his church, in which Michael tags along to record. The service starts without incident until he holds the baby to start the Immersion Baptism. He then mutters some lines from the Bible and starts forcefully submerging the baby in the holy water, staring blankly at the camera. The crowd of people rush up to save the baby as he passes out.

Soon after, Ben finds David at home with blood all over his forearms, eyes rolled back into his head, much the way Maria was during the exorcism. The police arrive, and though it doesn't show on film, David somehow acquires an officer's handgun and holds it in his mouth. Ben tells him to fight it, but he begins to weep, reciting The Lord's Prayer, stopping; forgetting the last few words. He laughs and then shoots himself. Just then, Isabella begins having a seizure.

Ben hysterically comes to the realization that Isabella is possessed. As they wait in the hospital, nurses rush into the emergency room and find a nurse on the floor, blood spewing from her neck as other nurses fight to restrain Isabella. Ben and Michael drag Isabella into the hallway and restrain her. They leave with Isabella in a car, heading to get help for a potential exorcism. While Michael drives, Isabella speaks of also knowing the horrible act Ben committed, scaring Ben. She then tries to strangle Michael and Ben is able to pull her off before Michael loses control of the car, but not before she breathes into Michael's mouth. He instantly shows signs of possession, and acceleration can be heard as Michael speeds into oncoming traffic, headlong into another car. The camera goes black, and cuts in with short sequences of chaos, most likely of Michael, Isabella and Ben flying through their car windshield, leaving the outcome unknown. After the screen finally cuts to black and the credits start rolling, a title card is shown informing that the case of the Rossi family is still unresolved, followed by another title card directing viewers to a website (www.therossifiles.com) "for more information on the ongoing investigation."

[edit] CastFernanda Andrade as Isabella Rossi
Simon Quarterman as Ben
Evan Helmuth as David
Ionut Grama as Mike
Suzan Crowley as Maria Rossi
Bonnie Morgan as Rosalita
Brian Johnson as Lieutenant Dreyfus
Preston James Hillier as Male Reporter
D.T. Carney as Detective
[edit] BackgroundPrincipal photography began in 2010 in several locations, including Bucharest (Romania), Rome (Italy) and Vatican City. The film is of the "found footage" genre, and so is shot in documentary style despite being fictional. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Steven Schneider took the movie to Paramount Pictures,[4][7] who ultimately produced it through their low-budget company Insurge Pictures, who acquired the film as their first release hoping it would replicate the success of Paranormal Activity.[4]

[edit] ReceptionThe film was not screened for critics, and was subsequently almost universally panned. It received an F from CinemaScore, which tracks audience reaction. Despite that, it topped the box office its opening weekend, the first after the New Year's Day holiday, displacing Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which had held that position for three straight weeks.[5] In its second weekend, however, the film dropped 76.2%, which was the largest second weekend drop for a film since Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (77.4%) in early 2009.[8]

Based on 76 reviews by Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently holds an approval rating of 7%. "The Devil Inside is a cheap, choppy unscary mess, featuring one of the worst endings in recent memory,"[9] said Peter Howell of the Toronto Star who felt that the film was a candidate for the worst film of 2012.[10] Matt Rorie of Screened.com gave the film zero stars, citing the film's lack of atmosphere and ending as the two major negatives. Stephen Witty of The Star-Ledger opined that "after The Blair Witch Project got by with sticks and stones and offscreen noises, filmmakers started thinking they didn't have to show anything. Well, no. It's better when you don't show too much – but if your story is about the supernatural, eventually you're going to have to come up with something.The Devil Inside can’t."[11] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune felt that the film "joins a long, woozy-camera parade of found-footage scare pictures, among them The Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activity films and certain wedding videos that won't go away."[12] Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter stated that the film "proves as scary and unsettling as a slab of devil's food cake – only considerably less satisfying.[13] The Rehash Critics gave this film a 1 out of 5.

The film's ending, in particular, came in for heavy criticism. "Is it the worst movie ending of all time?" David Haglund asked in Slate, citing various negative audience reaction to that aspect of the film online. What upset them even more than its abruptness, he suggested, was the title immediately following it that urged audiences to visit a website to learn more. "[It's] a marketing twist that makes audiences feel taken advantage of," Haglund observed.[5]

Besides the preponderance of negative reviews, there were a few critics who gave the film a "thumbs up". Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton of Dread Central had a positive review of the film stating, "The Devil Inside is home to moments that will shock, scare, disturb, and leave you gasping. It's a trip to the dark side that's well worth taking."[14] Joe Leydon of Variety felt that the film "generates a fair amount of suspense during sizable swaths of its familiar but serviceable exorcism-centric scenario."

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