"What she wants is unknown, but she always comes back: the specter of darkness, 'The Woman in Black.'"
Now, if that haunting nursery rhyme echoed by a young child's voice doesn't send shivers down your spine, perhaps you don't have a pulse ?�or perhaps you're just a wee bit jaded by the horror movie scene.
Frankly, MTV News deputy managing editor Eric Ditzian and yours truly, Movies Blog editor Josh Wigler, had a hard time figuring out which way we were feeling about that very question while recording our recent commentary on the "Woman in Black" trailer, which you can watch in the video above.
As our very own Aubrey Sitterson noted just last week, the "Woman in Black" trailer features some of the creepiest things of all time, including rhyming children's narration and blank-faced girls in matching dresses. On the one hand, the trailer is spot-on in its attempt to creep the bejeezus out of the viewer ?�this viewer, at least ?�though its method of terror is, perhaps, a bit expected. Children speaking in eerie rhyme is an all but guaranteed mode of horror travel at this stage of the game. A mysterious figure appearing from behind the protagonist's shoulder, too, is nothing new.
But does the expected or, dare I say it, the cliched always net out as something unworthy of our time? Not by a long shot. For me, and for many fans I expect, the real wrinkle here is the addition of Daniel Radcliffe. Boy Who Lived, you are not in Hogwarts anymore: this movie looks to be a supernatural flick of a whole different color, and it's going to be very interesting to see how the erstwhile "Harry Potter" star navigates a brand new genre with a bleaker tone than the already decidedly dark "Deathly Hallows" conclusion.
For more of mine and Eric's thoughts on the "Woman in Black" trailer, click the video at the top of the post. And we want to hear from you, too, so hit the comments section and go on Twitter to let us know what you think.
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