The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

The dead are not at rest.

200989 min4.7 / 10

A psychological ghost story steeped in Victorian dread, where supernatural horror and the governess's deteriorating certainty blur into an ambiguous meditation on possession and madness.

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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