The Woman In Black opens with a eerie and unsettling opening that develops the enigma of who and what is the, as yet, unseen title character, and what is the motivation behind what she is doing. The playful, innocent image of three young girls having a tea party turns to something creepy, and conventional of horror films, as they approach the three windows at the end of the room, and leap to their deaths in unison. The entirety of the sequence is silent, except for the horror score that drives the scene, until we hear the screams of the children's mother, as we cut to a startlingly quick shot of a creepy looking doll, and the camera reveals the titular character in a blink and you'll miss it moment before fading to white, an unusual choice as black is the preferred colour for dark films such as this.