THE INNOCENTS (Blu Ray - Criterion Collection) DEBORAH KERR

Description: THE INNOCENTS - Jack Clayton, DEBORAH KERR Criterion Collection (Blu Ray) The Innocents is a 1961 British supernatural gothic horror film directed and produced in CinemaScope by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave and Megs Jenkins. Based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the plot follows a governess who watches over two children and comes to fear that the house is haunted by ghosts and that the two children are being possessed. The title of the film was taken from William Archibald's stage adaptation of James' novella. Falling within the subgenre of psychological horror, the film achieves its effects through lighting, music and direction rather than conventional shocks. Its atmosphere was created by cinematographer Freddie Francis, who employed deep focus in many scenes, as well as bold, minimal lighting. It was partly shot on location at the Gothic mansion of Sheffield Park in Sussex. The Innocents pioneered the use of synthesised electronic sound, generated by Daphne Oram. This genuinely frightening, exquisitely made supernatural gothic stars Deborah Kerr (BLACK NARCISSUS) as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic THE TURN OF THE SCREW, co-written by Truman Capote (IN COLD BLOOD) and directed by Jack Clayton (ROOM AT THE TOP), The Innocents is a triumph of narrative economy and technical expressiveness, from it's chilling sound design to the stygian depths of it's widescreen cinematography by Freddie Francis (THE ELEPHANT MAN).

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