At a remote Victorian country estate, inexperienced governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) takes charge of two seemingly angelic orphaned children, Flora and Miles. But Miles’s mysterious expulsion from boarding school and a series of increasingly unsettling incidents lead her to suspect that something sinister has taken hold of the children.

A seminal gothic chiller, Jack Clayton’s second feature (following his Oscar-nominated debut, ROOM AT THE TOP) draws its plot from Henry James’s 1898 novella A Turn of the Screw, adapted for the occasion by William Archibald and Truman Capote. Deborah Kerr stars as Miss Giddens, a woman working her first job as a governess for a rich bachelor (Michael Redgrave), moving to his country estate to look after two orphans who are in his custody. But as time passes, Miss Giddens increasingly believes that the estate is haunted, and that the children’s outbursts are evidence of spectral possession…. A touchstone work examining the relationship between the paranormal and the psychological, THE INNOCENTS endures as one of cinema’s finest ever ghost stories. – Film at Lincoln Center

“Beautifully crafted and acted, immaculately shot… and very scary.” — Martin Scorsese, quoted by Time Out

“A masterclass in creepy-kid acting.” — Cath Clarke, Time Out

“One of the finest cinematic ghost stories as well as one of the scariest.” — Geoff Andrew, BFI