The Woman in Black/YMMV


 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Is the Woman in Black a Complete Monster who enjoys the misfortune of killing other parents children, or a Well-Intentioned Extremist who just wanted to replace her lost son or a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who was a Tragic Villain made into a monster by her sister adopting her son?
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: In the movie, and of the non-comedic variety. While Arthur is busy waiting for, Mr. Daily has a vision of . Then the main plot resolves itself upstairs and , this scene changed nothing, accomplished just as much, and was never mentioned again.
 * Debatable. It could be a means of
 * Cliché Storm:
 * Creepy Doll? Check.
 * Crazy wind-up toys? Check.
 * Jump Scare? Check.
 * Cat Scare? Check.
 * Empathy Doll Shot? Check.
 * Evil-Detecting Dog? Check.
 * Haunted House? Check.
 * Town With a Dark Secret? Check.
 * Creepy Child? Check.
 * Then again, as a tribute to the ancient Hammer Horror, the film ranges from Stylistic Suck to Seinfeld Is Unfunny at times.
 * Complete Monster: Jennet
 * Fan Nickname: for the movie, "Harry Potter and the Woman in Black" for obvious reasons.
 * Fridge Horror: Kipps finds a baby bird that fell out of a nest in the fireplace. It's possible the titular ghost tried to kill the chick as well due to not having access to the town at the time or just not willing to allow anything to have surviving children.
 * Worse, Alice Drablow lived alone in Eel Marsh House with the ghost of her vengeful sister. For years.
 * Worse, the WIB kills when seen, and Mrs. Drablow is both the target of her hate and living at the place she most haunts. Her continuing to live there makes it nigh impossible not to trigger sightings, and thus cause deaths. Mrs. Drablow must have known she was triggering child deaths in the town, and in a way her staying in that house meant she was at least partly to blame for a ton of deaths. So is she a victim, victimizer, or supernatural proof step-mother that never saw the ghost?
 * In the 2012 version, listen carefully when the woman is taking away her son. You can clearly hear him yell "NO! YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!" So was Arthur even doing the right thing by reuniting them? Maybe the reason he was lost for so long was because he was RUNNING from her.
 * Hell Is That Noise: If you see the stage version the sound of the rocking chair will become this for you, possibly also the horses hooves as the pony and trap approaches.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Is the name Radcliffe forever linked to the Gothic horror genre?
 * Idiot Plot: You're there to sort through the woman's paperwork, Harry Potter. Why not just take the paperwork back to town instead of staying in the house?
 * Nightmare Fuel: Jennet has complete power, the Jump Scare of the movies may seem cheesy, the way the solicitor's daughter just stands and stares as she  certainly wasn't.
 * Unfortunate Implications: Many of those wind up toys were monkeys as musicians -- this being the Victorian age, they were probably renderings of people of color as monkeys -- the common parlance at the time.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Jennet has complete power, the Jump Scare of the movies may seem cheesy, the way the solicitor's daughter just stands and stares as she  certainly wasn't.
 * Unfortunate Implications: Many of those wind up toys were monkeys as musicians -- this being the Victorian age, they were probably renderings of people of color as monkeys -- the common parlance at the time.