The Woman In Black And The Genius Of Nigel Kneale

So what is it that raised my suspicions with regard to the new film version of  The Woman in Black?. When viewing the trailer I immediately noticed that they had three spooky little girls in it. These girls are conspicuous by their absence from the original novel and Kneale's adaption,the only child ghost in the story is a little boy who is in fact The Woman in Blacks son.So where have they come from?.In fact they seem to have wandered into the film from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. In Stanley Kubrick's version of Steven Kings story his haunted house The Overlook Hotel is haunted by the specter  of two twin girls the Grady twins .They spookily  appear wearing party frocks and holding hands in the corridors of the hotel to the young son of Jack Nicolsons caretaker.It is quite a spooky unsettling image that only a director of Kubrick's quality could come up with.The spooky twin girl image was sent up brilliantly in the BBC black comedy series of the early 2000s The League Of Gentlemen.The twin Denton girls obviously based on the Grady twins from The Shining continuously and unexpectedly appear to torment Harvey and Val Denton's normal nephew who has come to stay with their eccentric obsessional family.The twins are called Chloe and Radcliffe .Radcliffe I always presumed as a camp reference to Radcliffe Hall the author of the 1920s Lesbian novel The Well Of Loneliness.Obviously the writers and director of the new version of The Woman In Black decided to go for three little girl ghosts. Is this a rather feeble attempt to use a key trope from The Shining but by increasing the number to three be able to deny it is a direct steal.?.To me it suggests a lazy imagination and an underestimation of the audiences intelligence many of whom will obviously be horror film fans who will immediately spot the reference.