6. Arthur Kipps Continues Working At The Clearly Haunted House The Woman In Black
Now, I'm not the hardiest bloke in the world. I jump at all surprises, whether in a horror film, a surprise party or people shouting too loud. So you can bet your bottom dollar that if I was lawyer Arthur Kipps, I probably wouldn't venture into a big scary house with a ghost the locals are p*ss-scared of, especially considering the recent spate of child-suicide in the area and random crying noises on the road to the property in question, Eel Marsh House. Frankly, there are just far better places where a man can work a library, a study in Ciaran Hinds' marvelous house, hell, even a pub. But a creepy manor from which there's no escape if the tides come in? Not so much. I suppose I understand that the legal documents were in the house, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with quickly going in, grabbing every scrap of paper you can and leaving the place immediately, and repeating this ad nauseam if you happen to be missing anything else. As it was, he rigged the child-murder odds in his favour if the deaths are dependent on you sighting the Woman only once, then staying in an area where she's gadding about can hardly be considered a good idea. I suppose the first encounter can be put down to Potter's sorry, Kipps' understandable scepticism surrounding ghost stories, but from that point on, leave the house alone, for Christ's sake. If nothing else, that spirit's really interrupting his work.