Why We Love The Innocents (1961)

SPOILER WARNING: My videos tend to give away important plot points etc so I'd advise not watching if you haven't already seen the film. If you don't mind being spoiled, hop right in.

Twelve minutes of gushing turned into fifteen because I just love this movie.

Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw was a significant entry into the Victorian horror genre - with a third hand account of a governess on her first job convinced the children are possessed by dead servants. It's been a popular one for adaptation, quite recently inspiring The Haunting of Bly Manor. But my personal favourite is Jack Clayton's 1961 b/w film The Innocents.

Fun fact - Truman Capote did a rewrite of the script, and the Freudian stuff was all his idea.

I've also gone and set up a Ko-Fi page, so if anyone wants to support me with a one-time donation :)
https://ko-fi.com/betterwithbob

And if you want to keep up with me on the ould socials...
@betterwithbobyoutube - Instagram for this channel
@bobbyiceman - personal Insta, TikTok and Twitter

#VictorianGhostStories #HenryJames #DeborahKerr #BritishHorrorFilms