This classy English mystery is adorned by a wonderful Deborah Kerr as the governess driven to extremes by a strange, haunted mansion and strange, haunted children,
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12/20/08
The Innocents (1961)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Creepily atmospheric, The Innocents is a stylishly crafted, chilling British ghost tale with Deborah Kerr at her finest.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Based on Henry James's TURN OF THE SCREW, THE INNOCENTS is a chilling psychological horror film about a woman, Miss Giddens (Kerr), who takes a position as governess for two orphans in a stately... [More]
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Director: Jack Clayton
Reviews for The Innocents
Top CriticBased on Henry James' story Turn of the Screw this catches an eerie, spine-chilling mood right at the start and never lets up on its grim, evil theme.
09/10/08
Top CriticThis unresolved mystery charges the events ... with a dreadful sense of uncertainty far more thrilling than the simple supernatural chills of a typical haunted house movie -- another "turn of the screw," as James would have said.
07/04/08
Kerr is on top form here, enacting a role that takes perfect advantage of her respectable facade wrestling with unspeakable turbulence beneath the surface.
09/24/07
Stylish, intelligent and creepy. Cinematic storytelling at its finest, where word and image are perfectly married.
09/24/07
Too much Freud and too little thought.
09/24/07
Is it the finest, smartest, most visually savvy horror film ever made by a big studio?
09/24/07
It's masterly in every way with a great performance from Deborah Kerr as the troubled Victorian governess, superb black-and-white widescreen photography by Freddie Francis and Georges Auric's last, truly distinguished score.
09/24/07
Jack Clayton’s 1961 chiller lives up to the story’s title, incrementally tightening the nerves through suggestive technical artistry in a way that few contemporary ghost stories manage.
06/24/06
An impressively creepy adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
06/03/06
Top CriticIt sneaks under your skin, subtly and suggestively portraying something sinister and perverse that may exist only in the protagonist's head, but that doesn't mean it can't mess with yours.
04/05/06
Creepy, atmospheric happenings with effective direction + Deborah Kerr.
02/18/06
...creates an appropriately spooky tone that builds slowly, incrementally, until it reaches a shattering conclusion.
09/16/05
Wonderful adult horror, stylishly well-made and frightening on a couple of levels.
08/04/05
Ambíguo e com forte subtexto sexual, este é um filme seminal, servindo como inspiração para obras como O Bebê de Rosemary, Os Outros e os recentes longas de terror japoneses.
07/18/05
No review available.
07/02/05
Sends some formidable chills down the spine.
05/09/05
Top Criticmasterful thriller
11/08/04
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
04/27/03
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