The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)

A much bolder, braver horror sequel than most. Except for a wispy ending, it’s a match for the first.

This inevitably doesn’t have the charge of the first story, but it is still interestingly weird and dreamlike, and quite disturbing. A commercially driven sequel, sure – but still effective.

Harper’s well-appointed sequel has strong performances even if the Woman becomes a supporting character in her own tale.

The film ends up cheapening its sense of empathy in its final mad rush to subject audiences to every incarnation of the jump scare imaginable.

Reliant on suspense rather than gore, this is functional middle-brow psychological horror and screenwriter Joe Croker finds plenty of tired haunted house tropes he’s happy to recycle in adapting material from Susan Hill’s original novel.