Nightmare Classics: The Turn of the Screw (1989)
Season 1, Episode 1
9/10
First-rate production
14 September 2012
I was totally impressed with this filming. It is the most effective of all the versions of the story, which is surprising since it's only a TV episode. Not your everyday TV series fare, it's a quality British film like so many other great films from there. Amy's voice must have been dubbed since it is a perfect English accent, I don't know. The locations and other actors are British. The atmosphere is spooky, the scares are well done. The relationship of the ghosts to the characters is well explained and depicted, unlike the vague lame interpretation in The Innocents. Movie books say there is nudity, but that only refers to statues and paintings on walls and in books, so that's quite a laugh. There is sexual content but it's more implied than explicit. The second best version I've seen is 1992 with Patsy Kensit. I haven't seen more recent ones. The books say there's nudity in that too but I didn't notice any.
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