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The Innocents

Movie
1961
1h 40m
NR
English
Horror, Mystery
User Score: 
7.8
Critic Score: 
92
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A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
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The Innocents

NR
Movie
1961
1h 40m
English
Horror, Mystery
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Rating
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7.8
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The Innocents (1961) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
92

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Deborah Kerr
Miss Giddens
Peter Wyngarde
Peter Quint
Megs Jenkins
Mrs. Grose
Clytie Jessop
Miss Jessel
Eric Woodburn
Coachman (uncredited)
Directed By: Jack Clayton
Written By: Truman Capote (Screenplay), Henry James (Novel), + 1 more

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miguelreina says...
5 years ago
Scary vision of repressed sexuality.
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moonkodi says...
7 years ago
Didn't do much for me. Predictable ghost guessing game. I'm not much of a ghost horror fan anyway. It could be any slow ghost movies with kids, all kind of the same to me. Not scary either. This movie seems to have reached a status where it can do no wrong, and every last creeky door and shot is genius. I don't buy it.
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Maiden Aveline says...
4 years ago
What in the world did I just watch... This movie officially has the creepiest children in cinematic history. I found it weird... It also seemed too melodramatic to be taken seriously, and some parts of the movie just seemed utterly silly.
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Cornholio23 says...
4 years ago
In fact one of a just a very few movies that made me goosebumps. So intense and excellent played
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Featured User Reviews

Bradym03
8/10  5 years ago
“We lay my love and I, beneath the weeping willow. But now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. Singing "Oh willow waly" by the tree that weeps with me. Singing "Oh willow waly" till my lover return to me. We lay my love and I beneath the weeping willow. A broken heart have I. Oh More
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AndrewBloom
7/10  5 years ago
[6.9/10] *The Innocents* is a number of good scares in search of a better movie. Director Jack Clayton and his crew construct plenty of sequences that chill the spine, shots that make your skin crawl, and moments to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. But the production is rife with ove More
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Wuchak
3 years ago
_**Low-key Gothic horror with Deborah Kerr**_

A new governess (Deborah Kerr) takes over as nanny of two orphaned siblings at a remote English manor at the turn of the century, but there’s a secretive past to the situation and seemingly ghostly happenings. Pamela Franklin plays the girl.

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John Chard
6 years ago
The Innocents (1961)



Oh willow I die, oh willow I die...



Based on Henry James' novel, The Turn Of The Screw, The Innocents is a thoroughly absorbing chiller that pot boils with almost unbearably knowing glee as to what it's doing to the viewer. Deborah Kerr stars as Miss Giddens, th More
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