The Innocents
8.5/10. Watched this Saturday evening on DVD.
If you're like me and you've seen a bazillion horror movies, you don't expect them to scare you anymore. Especially not 44-year-old black-and-white horror movies that star Deborah Kerr. The Innocents, however, scared me. A lot. And more than once.
Like Robert Wise's The Haunting, which came out two years later, The Innocents uses sound effects and subjective perspective to get under your skin. Unfortunately, it lacks its successor's complexity, largely because we know so little about Kerr's character, and I suspect it wouldn't stand up to repeated viewings.
posted by Ian @ 11:19 AM
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Hey! I just watched this last night, over at Jon Dean's Scary Movie Fest (double feature with It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown). It *is* weirdly eerie and creepy. You can never quite tell if the governess is losing it completely or if the kids are sociopaths.
Oh, and I really enjoyed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
For me, the sequence where Kerr is rushing through the house searching rooms for the ghost couple was nearly unbearable. I had the remote in my hand and was flicking at the STOP button with my thumb. It certainly helped that I watched it by myself in a dark apartment...
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