Movie

The Turn of the Screw

1999 · 100 min

A slow, unsettling plunge into a governess's fragile mind, where ghostly dread and psychological ambiguity blur together in a hushed country house.

Overview: In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, obsession, fate, madness
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
obsession
fate
madness
death
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild