The scares were very much predictable as we can easily guess when we
need to get ready to relax and not be too serious and concentrating on
the screen to make the impact of horror in theatre to the bare minimum.
Also, it has a setting recycled from many other Hollywood flicks. Even
then Tom Harper directed The Women in Black 2 : Angel of Death (British
film) a watchable film without too much of blood and violence. This is
the second installment of The Women in Black series and since I haven't
seen the first part, not going into that or making a reference to that
first part.
Beginning from London in the early part of the 1940's on the sidelines of World War 2, caretakers Eve Parkins and Jean take a group of orphaned kids to the abandoned Eel Marsh house located in a remote British countryside for safety. But soon they realise that they are not safe anymore as they have come to a haunted house where the women in black is an inhabitant there. Their presence have awakened her and rest of the story focus on how they get out of the mess after few of the children start to disappear.
There are moments that will scare you but in no way this film is close to movies released recently like a Conjuring or The Insidious series. Still without comparisons, this is an average one time watchable flick without any boredom though the first half takes time to settle down as well and give us a picture of what is in store for us. At ninety three minutes, WIB 2 doesn't stretch things and there is a smooth flow in screenplay. Though visuals looked good, what the film lacks is that it is not scary enough and hence people expecting something of that sort will be a disappointed lot.
On the acting side, there are only very few characters in the film. Phoebe Fox and Helen McCrory play the roles of the two caretakers with ease while Jeremey Irvine play the role of the pilot who helps the ladies and children to get them safely from Eel Marsh house. Among the children, the boy who portrayed the character of Edward had more screen presence considering the importance of that character in the overall scheme of things.
Cinematography was good along with nice art works. Editing was sloppy at times as some of the scenes were cut before they ended giving a bad feel. Background score was done neatly without going too much louder. We have seen such BGM's that just uses that sound factor to scare us without showing much on the screen.
Super natural horror movies are making its way to theatres very frequently these days and to make a mark among them is a hard task considering the standards set by some predecessors of this genre. WIB 2 among them can stake a claim to be a part of good horror flicks. If you love to watch scary movies in a theatre ambience, do watch this one as it is not that bad. For me it was an average fare content wise but above average in terms of visual quality and my rating is two and a half out of five for WIB 2 : Angel of Death.
Rating - 2.5 / 5
Beginning from London in the early part of the 1940's on the sidelines of World War 2, caretakers Eve Parkins and Jean take a group of orphaned kids to the abandoned Eel Marsh house located in a remote British countryside for safety. But soon they realise that they are not safe anymore as they have come to a haunted house where the women in black is an inhabitant there. Their presence have awakened her and rest of the story focus on how they get out of the mess after few of the children start to disappear.
There are moments that will scare you but in no way this film is close to movies released recently like a Conjuring or The Insidious series. Still without comparisons, this is an average one time watchable flick without any boredom though the first half takes time to settle down as well and give us a picture of what is in store for us. At ninety three minutes, WIB 2 doesn't stretch things and there is a smooth flow in screenplay. Though visuals looked good, what the film lacks is that it is not scary enough and hence people expecting something of that sort will be a disappointed lot.
On the acting side, there are only very few characters in the film. Phoebe Fox and Helen McCrory play the roles of the two caretakers with ease while Jeremey Irvine play the role of the pilot who helps the ladies and children to get them safely from Eel Marsh house. Among the children, the boy who portrayed the character of Edward had more screen presence considering the importance of that character in the overall scheme of things.
Cinematography was good along with nice art works. Editing was sloppy at times as some of the scenes were cut before they ended giving a bad feel. Background score was done neatly without going too much louder. We have seen such BGM's that just uses that sound factor to scare us without showing much on the screen.
Super natural horror movies are making its way to theatres very frequently these days and to make a mark among them is a hard task considering the standards set by some predecessors of this genre. WIB 2 among them can stake a claim to be a part of good horror flicks. If you love to watch scary movies in a theatre ambience, do watch this one as it is not that bad. For me it was an average fare content wise but above average in terms of visual quality and my rating is two and a half out of five for WIB 2 : Angel of Death.
Rating - 2.5 / 5
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