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Film · 1961 · Horror
The Innocents
Directed by Jack Clayton
1961
United Kingdom
★ 5.8 editorial score
Freddie Francis lit it so the corners of every frame stay dark and you keep looking into them: a governess with two children in a huge house becomes certain they are being visited.
“Jack Clayton's "The Innocents"...is an elegant, sinister and scalp-prickling ghost story — as scary in its way as Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist. It has to be the most sure-footed screen adaptation of Henry James, taken from his 1898 novella "The Turn of the Screw", clarifying some of the original's ambiguities and obscurities, but without damaging the story's subtlety.”
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