Stranger Danger! The new movie ‘Woman in the Yard,’ directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, is America’s next psychological horror film that will make anyone living in a lone farmhouse paranoid. Sam Stefanak has written this masterpiece that builds tension around a lone shadowlike woman who is completely cloaked in black and mystically appears to be watching a secluded family. She appears out of nowhere, silently watching them in solitude, whispering the warning, “Today’s the day.”
‘The Woman in the Yard’ terrorizes characters played by Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Russell Hornsby, Peyton Jackson, and Estella Kahiha. It appears all of them share terrible stress with unanswered questions of who this woman is. How did she get there, what is she doing, and what does her chilling warning, ‘Today’s the day” mean?
The Woman In The Yard Could Be Watching You
Chills, Thrills, and Horror
This horror thriller comes from Universal Pictures, and Blumhouse was shot in Athena Studies in Athens and Bostwick, Georgia. In the trailer is Ramona, who is played by Deadwyler, who is recovering from a car accident that claimed her husband now must care for her children alone. Her eldest is a 14-year-old son, played by Jackson, and a 6-year-old daughter by Kahiha, who live together in a lone farmhouse and must now deal with more than grief.
When the mysterious shrouded woman first appears, Ramona begins to speculate that she must be lost or mentally challenged. Several days of her creepy, vigilant watching of the home persist, making the family conclude that this horrible dark figure is anything but peaceful. Unfortunately for the brokenhearted family, she isn’t there just to watch as horrible things happen to them as they struggle to survive.
The Film’s Trailer
The trailer for ‘The Woman in the Yard’ starts with scenes of open farmland fields where the only voice heard is a child reciting a nursery rhyme of a terrible warner of the woman in black. The camera is shown speeding through the tall grass toward the home with a lone askew frame shot of a single prevalent chair. It seems the family, already dealing with their everyday lives with loss, all see this covered-up woman in the middle of the day. After a long, terrible silence, this watcher almost joyfully offers her only verbal warning. She shows of her bloody hands alerting the family.
From that moment, everything turns medieval with the children screaming, shadows from nowhere dragging the children across the floor, and pictures spinning in circles on the wall. Things only get worse as the woman is seen on for a second holding Ramona’s daughter hostage. From the whole trailer, it seems the movie is set to pull you in and give you a gripping beginning before the blood turning climax where all the questions of who ‘The Woman in the Yard’ is.
A Legacy Of Terror
This masterpiece of suspense is the debut first move work of writer Sam Stefanak. His earlier work consists of F is for Family, and The Expanding Universe. When evil has a big appetite for you, look at the history brought to you by the director works of Collet-Serra. Collet-Serra has brought us terrifying movies of House of Wax, Unknown, The Shallows, and more. If you ever fear looking out your front window and seeing someone spying on you, this horror film is being released on March 28th.
There isn’t anything like having horror creep just out of reach after you before they take it up another level. That level of talent shows a lot of trust in Stefanak. One key to a horror movie is having everyone truly believe what is after them is real. Danielle Deadwyler pulls her terror training through the screen, selling the audience a promise of a great scare. Good luck, everyone.
