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‘The Woman in the Yard’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler in a Farmhouse Horror Movie That Just Sits There
Danielle Deadwyler plays a depressed widow who's menaced by the title ghost-demon in a movie that doesn't have the energy to jolt you.
It opens with the central character, Ramona ( Danielle Deadwyler), laying in bed watching a phone video of her husband, David (Russell Hornsby), as he talks about the dream he had, where the farmhouse they’re living in and renovating was all finished. She’s a ghostly figure swathed in billowy black material, which covers even her head (she looks like a beekeeper in mourning), seated about 100 feet away from the house in an ornate cast-iron chair, with only her hands visible, calmly folded like the Mona Lisa’s. The director, Jaume Collet-Serra (who made “Orphan,” which has become a piece of cult schlock), doesn’t raise your fear pulse by so much as two heartbeats, and Sam Stefanak’s script is just a minimalist gloss on “The Shining.” We’re stuck in that house, with nothing but a family of three digging through their cliché troubles.
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