History Film / TheWomanInBlack

* DeathByChildbirth: Kipps' wife.

* FriendToAllChildren: Arthur.

* OverprotectiveFather: Jerome and his wife keep their daughter in a room in a cellar to keep her safe from Jennet. [[spoiler:It fails.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: PC Collins, who immediately leaves the room after Arthur reveals he saw Jennet, and is totally absent while [[spoiler:Victoria Hardy]] dies from drinking lye, which is when he is needed most, and later is a part of the PowderKegCrowd that blames the recent deaths on Arthur.

* SelfImmolation: [[spoiler:The solicitor's daughter]] drops a lantern at her feet and goes up in flames.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Everything that the main character does in this movie, including his attempts to set things right with Jennet and her dead son, is rendered pointless at the end when he and his son are simply murdered by Jennet's ghost. [[BittersweetEnding At the very least, though, he and his son are reunited with his wife]].]]

* 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.]]

* DarkIsEvil

* ImplacableMan

* GenreThrowback[=/=]GenreRelaunch: To the classic slow-paced Hammer Horror films of the 1970s.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:The title character appears to let the Kipps family pass on, rather than stay on Earth like the rest of her victims, out of gratitude for Arthur's effort to appease her and sacrificing his life in an attempt to save his son.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: in the novel, the kids dying was just something the townsfolk of Crythin Gifford had to live with; in the film it becomes a subplot. Nathaniel's corpse is also recovered and properly buried; and no attempt is made to exorcise either spectre. In the film, Arthur witnesses [[spoiler: Nathaniel drag himself out of the bog and try to regain the house]], which gives him the idea to attempt to reunite the ghosts.

* RiseFromYourGrave: [[spoiler: when Nathaniel doesn't manifest as a horse and cart sinking to its doom in a bog, he drags himself out of it and tries to enter the house. This is what gives Arthur the idea to reunite Jennet and Nathaniel.]]

* CastingGag / HilariousInHindsight: Arthur Kipps was played by Adrian Rawlins in the 1989 TV version and by Creator/DanielRadcliffe in the 2012 feature version. In the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, Adrian Rawlins portrayed James Potter in flashbacks, so Radcliffe is following in the footsteps of his onscreen father.

Not to be confused with the trope WomanInBlack.

* AdaptationExpansion: in the novel, the kids dying was just something the townsfolk of Crythin Gifford had to live with; in the film it becomes a subplot. Nathaniel's corpse is also recovered and properly buried; and no attempt is made to excorsize either spectre. In the film, Arthur witnesses [[spoiler: Nathaniel drag himself out of the bog and try to regain the house]], which gives him the idea to attempt to reunite the ghosts.

* GenreThrowback/GenreRelaunch: To the classic slow-paced Hammer Horror films of the 1970s.

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:The lye victim]], in a severe example.

* RiseFromYourGrave: [[spoiler: when Nathaniel doesn't manifest as a horse and cart sinking to its doom in a bog; he drags himself out of it and tries to enter the house; to no avail. This is what gives Arthur the idea to reunite Jennet and Nathaniel.]]

* RiseFromYourGrave: [[spoiler: when Nathan doesn't manifest as a horse and cart sinking to its doom in a bog; he drags himself out of it and tries to enter the house; to no avail. This is what gives Arthur the idea to reunite Jennet and Nathaniel.]]

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Everything that the main character does in this movie, including his attempts to set things right with Jennet and her dead son, is rendered pointless at the end when he and his son are simply murdered by Jennet's ghost. [[BittersweetEnding At the very least, though, he and his sn are reunited with his wife]].]]

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Everything that the main character does in this movie, including his attempts to set things right with Jennet and her dead son, is rendered pointless at the end when he and his son are simply murdered by Jennet's ghost. [[BittersweetEnding At the very least, though, he and his son are reunited with his wife]].]]

* [[spoiler:DiabolusExMachina]]: See below.

** Or maybe the only reason [[spoiler:Kipps' child didn't join the Woman's ghost army]] is because [[spoiler:his father died with him, trying to protect him.]]

* Film/HammerHorror: ... duh.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: The final shot of the film is a close-up of Jennet. She then turns her head and ''looks straight at the camera''.]]

* HammerHorror: ... duh.

There is a [[WomanInBlackAngelOfDeath sequel]] which came out in January 2015.

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

[[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.

* PowderKegCrowd: When children start dying after Arthur arrives in town, the townsfolk blame him because of his connection with the manor, and at one point surround Daily's car as he's ready to drive out of town. Daily defuses the situation.[[spoiler:..before nearly running them over.]]

* HammerHorror: ...duh.

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

There is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black_(2012_film)#Sequel sequel]] in development.