By Haley McNulty – Entertainment Editor

Forty years after Arthur Kipps first was tormented, two teachers and a group of grade-school orphans seek refuge during World War II at the Eel Marsh house in “The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death.”

Surrounded by water, in the middle of nowhere, and being abandoned for years, the Eel Marsh house seems like the perfect, safest place to be. But at the story moves along, viewers see this is not the case.

Not long after arriving, the strange apparition that appears throughout the house starts to affect the children’s behavior.

Eve, a young teacher, begins to have a reoccurring nightmare of when she was younger and had to give up her baby. Later, she finds a message, reading “You let him go,” scolding her for leaving her baby.

Edward in particular, a young boy who has been mute since the death of his parents, is haunted by the Angel of Darkness. Locked in a nursery by two of the other boys, the Angel of Darkness first appears to him, and gives him an old doll that resembles a sailor. Edward carries the doll around constantly, never letting it out of his sight.

That night, one of the boys who locked Edward in the nursery is found on the beach attached to the ground with barbed wire – he had drowned at high tide.

Eve and Harry investigate the background of the Angel of Darkness. They find that her name is Jennet Humphrye, who is the sister of Alice Drablow, the original Woman in Black.

Jennet had a son who died a premature death, and is punishing Eve in the same way that she gave her baby away. Eve is not the only teacher who had been lured to the Eel Marsh House.

Finally realizing the danger that the house possesses, Jean, Harry, and Eve take the children to Harry’s airfield, where they wait while an air raid takes place. However, Jennet lures Edward from the group, where they fake his death. Not fooled by the strange woman, Eve returns to the Eel Marsh House, knowing that is where she will find Edward there.

For a movie in the “horror” genre, the film had a disappointing amount of “scares” and has little suspense and tension. The few that it did have were weak, feeble, and horribly predictable.

A solid and noteworthy job is credited to the actors, however; they definitely worked with what they had. A flimsy plotline made the movie uninteresting to watch and simply unoriginal.

The special effects from the movie were pristine, though they went a little overboard with the dim lighting. Instead of a gloomy feel, at some points it was simply too dark and foggy to see what was going on.

Overall, “The Woman In Black 2: Angel of Death” had an unoriginal plotline and limited suspense. However, the actors portrayed their characters well and the special effects made the movie interesting to watch.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars