The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

While London reels under the Blitz in 1940, two schoolteachers (Phoebe Fox, Helen McCrory) take a group of children to the presumed safety of the country—except that they're assigned to the remote, decrepit, haunted house from 2012's The Woman in Black. Written (badly) by Jon Croker and directed (equally poorly) by Tom Harper, this is the kind of sequel that not only sullies the memory of the movie that came before—it makes you wonder if the original was as good as you thought it was. Fox's character takes the customary stupidity of people in hack horror movies like this to mind-boggling depths, while Croker's script is riddled with holes and loose ends. The result is a movie as miserable as the house where it takes place. The obnoxious music by Marco Beltrami and Brandon Roberts is another minus. J.L.