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--> In the marsh lies a house abandoned for years,\\

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--> ---> In the marsh lies a house abandoned for years,\\
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There is no escaping The Woman in Black,\\

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There is no escaping The Woman in Black,\\Black.
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The specter of darkness, [[TitleDrop The woman in black]].

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The specter of darkness, [[TitleDrop The woman Woman in black]].Black]].
** The trailer for the sequel has a shorter, but equally chilling one.
--> In the marsh lies a house abandoned for years,\\
That hides a darkness beyond all fears,\\
She never forgives, she always comes back,\\
There is no escaping The Woman in Black,\\
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* GenreThrowback/GenreRelaunch: To the classic slow-paced Hammer Horror films of the 1970s.
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The 2012 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack'', produced by Franchise/HammerHorror.

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The 2012 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack'', produced by Franchise/HammerHorror.
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The 2012 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack'', produced by HammerHorror.

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The 2012 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack'', produced by HammerHorror.
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Replace \"GODDAMN\" with \"PRACTICALLY\" in the Creepy Doll entry


* CreepyDoll: GODDAMN EVERYWHERE.

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* CreepyDoll: GODDAMN PRACTICALLY EVERYWHERE.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The protagonist and his son die, but they're reunited with his wife and seemingly happy to be together. Also, unlike the rest of the children the Woman has taken, they're free to move on to the afterlife. However the BittersweetEnding is Bitter enough to veer into DownerEnding territory --Arthur and Joseph ''are'' dead, after all, and the Woman in Black ''will'' continue to torment the village.]]
** [[spoiler: The DownerEnding is far ''worse'' for Sam, who despite helping Arthur in trying to appease the Woman in Black, is rewarded for all his efforts by witnessing his friend die along with his son, knowing that the Woman is ''still'' going to torment the village and prevent his son from being able to move on to the afterlife]].
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three girls in the prologue

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The protagonist and his son die, but they're reunited with his wife and seemingly happy to be together. Also, unlike the rest of the children the Woman has taken, they're free to move on to the afterlife. However the BittersweetEnding is Bitter enough to veer into DownerEnding territory --Arthur -- Arthur and Joseph ''are'' dead, after all, and the Woman in Black ''will'' continue to torment the village.]]
** [[spoiler: The DownerEnding is far ''worse'' for Sam, who who, despite helping Arthur in trying to appease the Woman in Black, is rewarded for all his efforts by witnessing his friend die along with his son, knowing that the Woman is ''still'' going to torment the village and prevent his son from being able to move on to the afterlife]].
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three girls in the prologueprologue.



* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Arthur manages to reunite Jennet with the body of her son, which seems to put her to rest, and thus saves the life of his son, right? Nope, the Lady still can't forgive what was done to her, so she appears to Arthur's son, which leads to both his and Arthur's deaths.]]

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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Arthur manages to reunite Jennet with the body of her son, which seems to put her to rest, and thus saves the life of his son, right? Nope, the Lady she still can't forgive what was done to her, so she appears to Arthur's son, which leads to both his and Arthur's deaths.]]



* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Mrs. Daily has a connection with the soul of her son, who was taken by the Woman in Black.]]

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* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Mrs. [[spoiler:Mrs Daily has a connection with the soul of her son, who was taken by the Woman in Black.]]



* RaisedByHumans: Daily's dogs.
* RealAfterAll: Sam Daily touts that Spiritualism is a hoax [[spoiler:even though the Woman in Black had taken his son as well, and his son's soul regularly takes possession of his wife]].

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* RaisedByHumans: Mrs Daily's dogs.
* RealAfterAll: Sam Daily touts that Spiritualism is a hoax [[spoiler:even though the Woman in Black had taken his son as well, and his son's soul regularly apparently takes possession of his wife]].



*** [[spoiler:This sort of seemed like a shout out to Harry Potter's epilogue- in the very beginning of the movie, Daniel Radcliffe is leaning down and reassuring his son and easing his worries. It was startingly similar to an adult Harry Potter comforting Albus Severus.]]

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*** [[spoiler:This sort of seemed like a shout out to Harry Potter's epilogue- epilogue -- in the very beginning of the movie, Daniel Radcliffe is leaning down and reassuring his son and easing his worries. It was startingly startlingly similar to an adult Harry Potter comforting Albus Severus.]]



* SkepticNoLonger: Sam Daily finally acknowledges the supernatural nature of the house and the existence of the ghost in the last act, and helps Kipps lay the ghosts to rest. [[spoiler:Well, he tries.]]

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* SkepticNoLonger: Sam Daily finally acknowledges the supernatural nature of the house and the existence of the ghost in the last act, and helps tries to help Kipps lay the ghosts to rest. [[spoiler:Well, he tries.]]
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Not to be confused with WomanInBlack.

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Not to be confused with the trope WomanInBlack.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: Arthur. Lampshaded by several characters after learning he's both a father and a widow, despite his youth.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: Arthur. Lampshaded by several characters after learning he's both a father and a widow, widower, despite his youth.

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Not to be confused with WomanInBlack.



* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Film/HarryPotter Harry and Aberforth]] are trying to stop the ghost of [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 WPC Annie Cartwright]].
** Mr. Bentley is [[Creator/RogerAllam Inspector]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]]. Or [[Radio/CabinPressure First Officer Douglas Richardson]], for some.
** [[Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes Dr Watson]] turns up as PC Collins.
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** It's debatable whether the Woman in Black really never took revenge on her sister. In her papers, Alice left many scrawled messages such as "She will haunt me to the grave" and "God protects me": one has to wonder if death would not have been preferable to living her whole life playing peek-a-boo with her sister's crazy ghost.
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* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: If you think reuniting the ghost with her lost child would stop her killing spree, you'd be wrong.]]
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** [[TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes Dr Watson]] turns up as PC Collins.

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** [[TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes [[Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes Dr Watson]] turns up as PC Collins.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: Arthur. Lampshaded by several characters after learning he's both a father and a widow, despite his youth.



* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler:The protagonist and his son die, but they're reunited with his wife and seemingly happy to be together. Also, unlike the rest of the children the Woman has taken, they're free to move on to the afterlife. However the BittersweetEnding is Bitter enough to veer into DownerEnding territory --Arthur and Joseph ''are'' dead, after all, and the Woman in Black ''will'' continue to torment the village.]]

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* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: AnAxeToGrind: Arthur grabs a hatchet at one point, whilst investigating the strange noises in the house.
* BittersweetEnding:
[[spoiler:The protagonist and his son die, but they're reunited with his wife and seemingly happy to be together. Also, unlike the rest of the children the Woman has taken, they're free to move on to the afterlife. However the BittersweetEnding is Bitter enough to veer into DownerEnding territory --Arthur and Joseph ''are'' dead, after all, and the Woman in Black ''will'' continue to torment the village.]]]]
** [[spoiler: The DownerEnding is far ''worse'' for Sam, who despite helping Arthur in trying to appease the Woman in Black, is rewarded for all his efforts by witnessing his friend die along with his son, knowing that the Woman is ''still'' going to torment the village and prevent his son from being able to move on to the afterlife]].



* DisproportionateRetribution: The titular woman steals children out of revenge [[spoiler:against her son being kept away from her]]...but the children she's stealing have nothing to do with the matter.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: The titular woman steals children out of revenge [[spoiler:against her son being kept away from her]]... but the children she's stealing have nothing to do with the matter.



* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Arthur himself at the end.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Arthur himself at the end.]]]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Arthur jumps on the tracks to prevent his son being hit by a train. It doesn't work, but his willingness to sacrifice himself for his son prevent the Woman in Black taking him, allowing them both to join his wife in the afterlife]].



* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"never forgive...''never forgive''...'''never forgive!'''"]]

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* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:"never [[spoiler:"Never forgive...''never forgive''...'''never forgive!'''"]]forgive!'''"]]
* MisplacedRetribution: Despite the Woman in Black holding her sister as one of those responsible for taking her son away from her, leaving him to die in the marsh and never bothering to recover the body, she apparently allowed her to die of old age with zero comeuppance on her part. Of course, letting her suffer all those years with the crippling guilt of being responsible for the death of the subsequent children might have been her goal.


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** Arthur even invokes this towards Sam when he calls him out for not warning him to stay away from the house, especially after learning that he had a son of his own. Sam defends this by pointing out that he simply didn't ''want'' to believe the stories and preferred to believe that [[spoiler: his son was in the afterlife, rather than lost as a thrall to the Woman in Black]].
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** [[EpilepticTrees Or the presence of]] [[spoiler:Kipp's wife]], who was already foreshadowed as a GuardianAngel, made it impossible for the Woman to claim them.
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There is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black_(2012_film)#Sequel sequel]] in development.
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** Mr. Bentley is [[Main/RogerAllam Inspector]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]]. Or [[Radio/CabinPressure First Officer Douglas Richardson]], for some.

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** Mr. Bentley is [[Main/RogerAllam [[Creator/RogerAllam Inspector]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]]. Or [[Radio/CabinPressure First Officer Douglas Richardson]], for some.
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The 2012 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''TheWomanInBlack'', produced by HammerHorror.

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The 2012 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''TheWomanInBlack'', ''Literature/TheWomanInBlack'', produced by HammerHorror.
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[[DanielRadcliffe Arthur Kipps]], a grieving widowed man, is sent to settle the affairs of a deceased widow. The locals seem to be in a rush to hurry him along his way, but he resolves to do the job he came to do.

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[[DanielRadcliffe [[Creator/DanielRadcliffe Arthur Kipps]], a grieving widowed man, is sent to settle the affairs of a deceased widow. The locals seem to be in a rush to hurry him along his way, but he resolves to do the job he came to do.
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://vimeo.com/54585365 "G.G."]] by MUCC will be the image song for the Japanese version.

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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://vimeo.com/54585365 "G.G."]] by MUCC will be is the image song for the Japanese version.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The Woman in Black, of course.
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** Mr. Bentley is [[Main/RogerAllam Inspector]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]] Or [[Radio/CabinPressure First Officer Douglas Richardson]].

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** Mr. Bentley is [[Main/RogerAllam Inspector]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]] Javert]]. Or [[Radio/CabinPressure First Officer Douglas Richardson]].Richardson]], for some.
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** Mr. Bentley is [[Main/RogerAllam Inspector]] [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert]] Or [[Radio/CabinPressure First Officer Douglas Richardson]].
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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]

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* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]][[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Arthur himself at the end.]]
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** [[HarryPotter Harry and Aberforth]] are trying to stop the ghost of [[LifeOnMars WPC Annie Cartwright]].

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** [[HarryPotter [[Film/HarryPotter Harry and Aberforth]] are trying to stop the ghost of [[LifeOnMars [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 WPC Annie Cartwright]].
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: "G.G." by MUCC will be the image song for the Japanese version.

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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://vimeo.com/54585365 "G.G." "]] by MUCC will be the image song for the Japanese version.
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: "G.G." by MUCC will be the image song for the Japanese version.
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* TheLostLenore: Arthur's wife.
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** The upstairs landing of Eelmarsh House has the same pattern on the floor as the hotel carpet in ''TheShining''.

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** The upstairs landing of Eelmarsh House has the same pattern on the floor as the hotel carpet in ''TheShining''.''Film/TheShining''.

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