The Innocents
Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?
HorrorMysteryDramabased on novel or bookenglandsupernaturalhaunted househauntingpossessionblack and whiteghost storyghostgovernesspossessed child
A psychologically ambiguous ghost story that sustains dread through visual restraint and the governess's mounting conviction, leaving the nature of the haunting deliberately unresolved.
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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