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The Innocents
Drama, Horror, Mystery
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value psychologically ambiguous haunting, oppressive atmosphere, and carefully controlled black-and-white gothic imagery over explicit shocks.
- Tone
- eerie, dread, melancholic
- Payoff
- scares, unease
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- innocence, repression, possession, isolation, unreliable perception
- Setting
- mid-nineteenth-century, isolated English country estate