Some of you would know about the new Netflix
series The Haunting of Bly Manor, loosely adapted from Henry James’s novella
The Turn of the Screw, about a governess employed to look after two young
children. My next film-club discussion will be about the 1961 film The Innocents,
which was based on the same story (with a screenplay that both Truman Capote
and John Mortimer contributed to!). Deborah Kerr plays Miss Giddens here, and
the film has a reputation as one of the milestones in psychological (or
“suggested”) horror, finding many visual equivalents for the narrative
ambiguity of the James story. (It is superbly shot by Freddie Francis.)
We’ll have the online discussion sometime
on the weekend of Nov 21-22 (if I survive the Delhi air of the next few
days), and I’ll be sharing the film with my email group soon. Anyone else who
is interested, please mail me (jaiarjun@gmail.com) and I’ll send
across the link.
By the way, the full text of The Turn of
the Screw is available online, for anyone who cares to make a book-to-film
comparison.
P.S. we might also discuss the 1963 film
The Haunting, based on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (which was
also adapted for the earlier season of the Netflix Haunting anthology).
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