TheTurning tries to update Henry James classic ghost story 'The Turn of the Screw'; it just leaves you just feeling screwed over. Our review
“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless” — so begins Henry James’an 1898 novella that’s the closest thing to a template for every haunted house story to thrill and chill you. If you’ve seen the 1961 classicor really any movie featuring spooky mansions where things that go bump in the night and your psyche, then you know the basics.
Floria Sigismondi’supdates James’ tale to the early ’90s while keeping the Gothic vibe, the governess heroine, the grave secrets and the ghostly apparitions, with a few extra bits of business along the way. Something vital definitely seems to have been lost in the translation, however, and what you’re left with is a retelling that feels deader than anything skulking around the shadows.
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