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• Turn of the Screw

  Perry Thoms 22 January 2010

  

  This version of Turn of the Screw, the famous chiller by Henry James, has been fatally ruined by its over emphasis on the lurid. The performances are fine, the setting - updated to the early nineteen-twenties, and the decor are all up to the BBC's usual standard. However the adaptation of the novella turns a subtle and unsettling tale in to a lumpy mess. There is no subtlety whatsoever in the appearance of the ghosts, who are roughly as terrifying as a stubbed toe, and most fatal of all we actually see what Peter Quint and Miss Jessel got up to - all in front of the children! Why on Earth remake this story when there are so many versions of it and nothing could improve on the brilliance of Jack Clayton's telling of the tale in The Innocents. Come on BBC there are thousands of marvellous Ghost stories out there waiting for adaptation - next Christmas let's have something more like the old M R James adaptations - which were spine chilling.

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Feature-length BBC drama based on the ghost story novella by Henry James. Michelle Dockery stars as Ann, the naive and repressed young governess who arrives at a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora (Josef Lindsay and Eva Sayer). After several mysterious occurrences, Ann becomes convinced that her young charges are possessed by the spirits of former occupants of the house.

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A young woman held imprisoned in an insane asylum refuses to tell her tale until one man finds the key that will unlock her dark secrets Hired as a governess to two young children Miles and Flora she found herself entrapped in a terrible mystery What happened to her predecessor? What secrets do the children carry with them? Why was young Miles expelled from school? Who was Peter Quint and why does his spirit fill the house with fear? In a haunting tale of sexual predators suspense and murder the ghosts are relentless in pursuit of those who believe in them cursing those who do not And fear awaits with every Turn of the Screw