“The most haunting ghost story ever committed to film”
—Maitland McDonagh

“A work of chilly and well-modulated hysteria”
—Slant Magazine

Nothing burns deeper than the hollow gaze of possessed posh children. In this icy candlelight gothic horror adapted from Henry James’ novella “The Turn of the Screw” and co-written by Truman Capote, all is not as it seems as Deborah Kerr’s Miss Giddens confronts the ghostly spirits of a Victorian estate.