The Turn of the Screw

TV Movie
2009
Not Rated
1h 33m

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Michelle Dockery, Josef Lindsay, and Eva Sayer in The Turn of the Screw (2009)

A naive and sexually repressed young governess is haunted by the ghosts of previous occupants of a mansion.A naive and sexually repressed young governess is haunted by the ghosts of previous occupants of a mansion.A naive and sexually repressed young governess is haunted by the ghosts of previous occupants of a mansion.

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Trivia
Three of the future cast of Downton Abbey (2010) appear in this production: Sue Johnston, Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery.

Quotes
[last lines]
Flora: [to the new governess] There you are. We've been waiting for you.

Connections
Featured in Half in the Bag: Borat 2 and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

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8/10

Well crafted film

I watched this film without knowing much about it in advance. I'm glad I did, otherwise I might have been influenced by the very negative reviews on this site.

I thought it well written, acted and filmed. Focussing on the ambiguity of the story - is it a film about ghosts and demonic possession or is it a film about female hysteria - made it, I think, very interesting.

I have not read Henry James's original novel so have no opinion about its adherence or not to the novel. Given that all dramatisations of novels are likely to change the original to some extent, I see no problem with that. What really matters is producing a watchable, engaging film. That is exactly what I saw here.