Kerr is on top form here, enacting a role that takes perfect advantage of her respectable facade wrestling with unspeakable turbulence beneath the surface.

Stylish, intelligent and creepy. Cinematic storytelling at its finest, where word and image are perfectly married.

It's masterly in every way with a great performance from Deborah Kerr as the troubled Victorian governess, superb black-and-white widescreen photography by Freddie Francis and Georges Auric's last, truly distinguished score.

Jack Clayton’s 1961 chiller lives up to the story’s title, incrementally tightening the nerves through suggestive technical artistry in a way that few contemporary ghost stories manage.

An impressively creepy adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.

It sneaks under your skin, subtly and suggestively portraying something sinister and perverse that may exist only in the protagonist's head, but that doesn't mean it can't mess with yours.

Creepy, atmospheric happenings with effective direction + Deborah Kerr.

...creates an appropriately spooky tone that builds slowly, incrementally, until it reaches a shattering conclusion.