The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
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The Turn of the Screw

DirectorJohn Frankenheimer

A new governess at a remote manor begins to see apparitions of her dead predecessor. But are her charges seeing what she does?

7.0 / 10
1959
82 min
HorrorThrillerTV Movie

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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