Is The Innocents scary?

Mildly — The Innocents works more through dread than through overt scares. As a supernatural film, it scored 4.5/10 for fear, 9.0/10 for atmosphere, and 8.0/10 overall on Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

What are some films like The Innocents?

Films similar to The Innocents on Darkly include Coraline (2009), The Dark and the Wicked (2020), The Gift (2000) — selected by cosine similarity on the 4-dimensional curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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The Innocents

1961 · NR · 1h 40m

A governess fears the ghosts of the manor are inside the children she tends.

A young governess arrives at a remote English country estate to care for two angelic orphans, Miles and Flora. She slowly becomes convinced that the spirits of the late governess and the valet she had an affair with — both dead in violence — are now inside the children. Jack Clayton's 1961 adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, with Deborah Kerr as Miss Giddens and Freddie Francis's celebrated black-and-white cinematography.

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