Bath Film Festival 2006

The Innocents

A brilliant exercise in psychological horror, The Innocents tells of an impressionable governess who agrees to tutor two orphaned children. On arrival at Bly House, she becomes convinced that the children are possessed by the spirits of the former governess and her lover. The sinister atmosphere is created not through shock tactics but through its cinematography, soundtrack, and décor, but it is Deborah Kerr’s portrayal of a young woman struggling to veil her hysteria that makes The Innocents an intensely unsettling experience. What Pauline Kael called “the best ghost movie I’ve ever seen” continues to inspire today’s ‘haunted house’ movies, most notably The Others. CB

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