Movies like The Woman in Black

“The Woman in Black (2012) is a British-Canadian 2010s gothic-horror that frames a legal errand as the premise for a parable about communal secrecy. It positions a lone lawyer’s inquiry into a deceased client’s estate against chiaroscuro lighting, claustrophobic framing and a minimal sound design so that procedural detail becomes atmospheric threat. The film converts social silence into an aesthetic strategy and so makes communal repression the engine of its dread.”