THE INNOCENTS

THE INNOCENTS

THE INNOCENTS, 1961

UK | Blu-ray, Black & White, 100’ | English
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins

An orphaned niece and nephew are left under the care of a governess in a sumptuous mansion in Victorian England. But during the time she spends there the governess starts seeing human silhouettes and when the children behave oddly she concludes that they are possessed by a demon. She must convince them and rescue them from this possession. Based on the novella The Turn of the Screw (1989) by Henry James, and citedby Martin Scorsese as “immaculately shot and very scary”, this ghost story is a forerunner of the psychological horror genre. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival the year it was released.

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