The Innocents (1961)

Based upon the novel "The Turn Of The Screw" by Henry James.

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[chelseagurl97]

Miss Jessel at 1:00 staring at them across the water chills my blood. You get a preview of the terror when you see 'wtf!' in Deb Kerrs eyes. Total class.F today's movies and the people who like them and make them possible.

[herringfly]

@RatherCrunchyMuffin

Just a pity modern-day producers don't understand that. I can't watch Hollywood dross any more. No matter how good the script might be, we have to endure cartoon-style sound effects and action scenes. If someone so much as walks across a room in a modern film, the action is accompanied by a sound like a Tornado fly-past. Even Sherlock Holmes has to do Kung-Fu, and every other film has to have angst-ridden teenage vampires in it. How about some films for grown-ups please!

[KTBEverlasting]

It probably would've scared me more if we saw more of Miss Jessel's face, but then again I think the real thing would've frightened me to death, so let's stay far away as possible shall we? So eerie, but brilliant film. And Miss Jessel's image far away is blazed in my mind. A hauntingly beautiful image of a woman in black and her ghostly humming.

[pouchfreeman]

What a beautiful, haunting film. And very disturbing. The sexual tension between Deborah Kerr and Miles (!) must have raised a few eyebrows in 1961. They just don't (and can't) make em like this anymore.

[jacleafy]

Exquisite, most exceptional adaptation - screenplay by Truman Capote - of the shockingly implicit 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James. Called by Oscar Wilde "a wonderful, lurid and poisonous little tale". A psycho-sexual horror movie: watch & read, read & watch ...

[Sei1863]

HOLY SHIT. I was not expecting this to scare me. In my youthful arrogance I didn't think a 1961 film could give me the bone-deep chills and make me not want to go to sleep, as I was planning to do.

Damn.

[grant70000]

의심의 여지없이 내 생애 최고의 유령 영화!

[tabbygail7]

I've seen this movie so many times as it's one of my favorites and it still spooks the hell out of me. Sadly, Hollywood has forgetten how to make great horror.

[Sheri451]

I liked this movie, I also saw The Turn Of The Screw made in the 1990s with two children playing Miles and Flora who looked about five and seven. But the boy in this movie was a great little actor, he was also in Children Of The Damned.Martin Stevens is his name.

[WGBudd801]

thats because the others with Kidman is a remake of this film both based on Shirley Jacksons book.

[windstorm1000]

Now, one of the great unanswered literary questions is, did the governess IMAGINE the ghosts or were they real? (Henry James leaves that tantalizingly open--a bit frustrating too). The movie appears to learn toward the latter answer.