The Woman In Black 2: Movie Review

WARNING: SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!

So, not many horror movies have come out lately, and I am a total horror movie junkie, so when I found out The Woman In Black 2 was coming out, I knew I had to see it. After watching five different teaser trailers and two official trailers, I was super pumped to see it, so Claire, Teia, and I stocked up on snacks to sneak into the theater and headed out. 

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The movie started in London, during WWII. The city was being bombed, so all of the parents were evacuating their children out of the city. The main character, Eve, and her co-teacher were in charge of a group of kids who didn’t have relatives in England. They were taking them to a house (actually more like a mansion) on an deserted island to live for the next few months. Okay, can we just talk about the fact that they thought it would be a good idea to take children to a DESERTED ISLAND??? Like, what if something went wrong? (Which it does, duh.) 

Anyway, throughout the first 25 minutes of the movie there was only one jump-scare… and it was literally just a guy who smashed a window and it made everyone jump because the noise was so loud. Even though Ryan Moran screamed, it was such a weird sound that everyone in the theater started laughing and wouldn’t settle down for like ten minutes.  Anyway, the movie goes on and things start to get strange and surprise, surprise, someone dies. It was a boy who had managed to unlock all of the doors in the house and walked outside and somehow managed to choke himself with barbed wire. And an even bigger surprise, THE CO-TEACHER DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE AND SHE FORCED THEM TO STAY EVEN THOUGH EVE SAID THEY SHOULD GET OFF OF THAT DAMN ISLAND. At this point the movie was starting to get really cliché. Oh, I forgot to mention that there are two more main characters in the movie. One is a little boy named Edward who is a mute and somehow becomes friends with the Woman In Black, and the other is a man named Harry who Eve becomes friends with. He works for the train station and is always driving up to the mansion to check on her, the cheeky fellow. Anyway, two more kids commit suicide so Eve goes down the road to an abandoned shack to investigate, which by the way, happened in the middle of the night. Why do characters always insist on doing things in the middle of the night? Why not use daylight to your advantage? So she finds this key that ends up showing her the secret history of the Woman In Black, who is the ghost of somebody; I couldn’t hear who because Ryan screamed again because of a minor jump-scare and the whole theater started laughing again. Also, when she finds the key a man briefly captures her and although she escapes, he doesn't appear at all later in the movie. THAT.IS.A.MAJOR.PLOT.HOLE. Seriously, why would they include a completely useless character? 

FINALLY the co-teacher realizes that they need to get the hell out of there and so they take the kids to an old air raid shelter. While they are there, they realize that the Woman In Black has followed them, (yet another cliché) and Edward goes missing. So, Eve drives all the way back up to the mansion to find him, and yep, you guessed it, he was there, and he was about to be “taken” by the Woman In Black. Just as he and Eve were about to disappear, Harry comes to the rescue and he dies instead of them. (UGH another cliché…) The movie ends with Eve and Edward living a happy life together, and Edward is wondering where the Woman In Black is now. And, as if the movie couldn't possibly get anymore predictable, the Woman In Black shows up in the reflection of a picture of Harry to really finish off the movie.

Honestly, this movie was a huge disappointment, it was super similar to all other horror movies, there were major plot holes, and IT WASN'T EVEN SCARY. There were maybe four jump scares in the whole movie, and that my friends, does not qualify as a horror movie in my opinion. I kid you not, someone literally fell asleep in the theater. Please don't waste your time with this one, try something scarier, such as My Little Pony. :p

-Allie