'The Woman in Black' review: A lousy cure for post-Potter
depression  'The Woman in Black'  'The Woman in Black'  *1/2
(out of four)  If it looks like a haunted house and sounds like
a haunted house, it is probably a haunted house.  Yet the
ominously remote location and eerie appearance that practically
includes a sign reading “Stay away, you fool!” aren’t enough to
deter Arthur Kipps (Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe), a young
lawyer sent to finalize some paperwork and deliver on one last
chance to save his job. Obviously Kipps has little faith in his
employment prospects; the more he sees screaming ghosts and
learns about deceased children, the more he insists on walking
slowly down dark hallways in search of something unlikely to
complete his assigned task.  Working from Susan Hill’s
Victorian-era novel, writer Jane Goldman and director James
Watkins subscribe to the notion that it’s always terrifying for
something spooky to appear and then disappear on second glance.
Since they also don’t think that will b