In a way, it makes sense for Daniel Radcliffe to choose a horror movie as his next adventure after the final “Harry Potter” film; he isn’t alone in attempting to shed his Boy-Who-Lived exoskeleton. “Harry Potter” co-star Emma Watson cut her hair and filmed the ever-angsty “Perks of Being a Wallflower,” and Rupert Grint is doing some film where his plane crashes in the Norwegian wilderness à la “The Grey.” Hardly appropriate lifestyle choices for Hermione and Ron.
So it’s time-travel Apparating time for Radcliffe, who’s off to the Edwardian era, starring in James Watkins’s “The Woman in Black” as Arthur Kipps, a lawyer assigned to a haunted estate in a particularly marshy region of England. This period piece-like, high-production film is jarring coming from Watkins, whose previous credits include such clichéd horror films as “Eden Lake” and “The Descent: Part 2.” But hey – the man knows the reality of modern horror.
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