
Bernard Cuffling in a publicity still for The Woman in Black
(Photo by Bill Allman)
The Woman in Black is a good ol’ yarn and I am for that.
On one level, Stephen Mallatratt’s script, which he adapted from Dame Susan Hill’s novel, is a straight-up ghost story — and it scared the bejeezus out of me a couple of times. (Fellow critic Jo Ledingham, who was sitting beside me, said she felt my chair lurch.) [Read more…]