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[[Daniel Radcliffe|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.
It isn't until later, as bodies begin to pile up -- upon the bodies already there -- that Arthur learns [[Town
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* [[Creepy Doll]]: GODDAMN EVERYWHERE.
* [[Dark Is Evil]]
* [[Death
* {{spoiler|[[Diabolus Ex Machina]]}}: See below.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: 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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** [[Epileptic Trees|Or the presence of]] {{spoiler|Kipp's wife}}, who was already foreshadowed as a [[Guardian Angel]], made it impossible for the Woman to claim them.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: Daily's dog can sense whenever wrathful Jennet is nearby, or one of her ghost kids.
* [[The Farmer and
* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: {{spoiler|The final shot of the film seems to imply this. If you have kids, it's particularly unsettling.}}
* [[Freeze
* [[Ghostly Goals]]: The titular ghost exists to cause the children of the nearby town to kill themselves. Arthur believes that she's doing this {{spoiler|because she wants to be reunited with her son, and he risks his life to accomplish this}}.
* [[Girl in
* [[Hammer Horror]]: ...duh.
* [[Haunted House Historian]]: ''Everyone'' in town, but of course none of them are talky.
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* [[Psychic Powers]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. Daily has a connection with the soul of her son, who was taken by the Woman in Black.}}
* [[Quieter Than Silence]]: Often.
* [[Raised
* [[Real After All]]: 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}}.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Nathaniel's room, where the wallpaper hides {{spoiler|missives from his mother either in red paint or actual blood}}.
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* [[Skeptic No Longer]]: 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.}}
* [[Together in Death]]: {{spoiler|The whole Kipps family.}}
* [[Town
* [[Unfinished Business]]: Jennet watched her son die, his body never recovered but left in the bog where it was with a simple cross to mark its place. Our hero concludes that reuniting the two may well lay her to rest. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Arthur. Maybe if we {{spoiler|reunite the ghost with her son}} she'll stop killing people! Nope.
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