#the innocents
Deborah Kerr photographed for ‘The Innocents’, 1961.
“It was only the wind, my dear.”
The Innocents,1961
Cinematography by Freddie Francis
Directed by Jack Clayton
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Gothic, Horror, and Haunted Houses, Part 2: Psycho(1960),The Innocents(1961),The Haunting(1963),Rosemary’s Baby(1968),The Legend of Hell House(1973),Suspiria (1977),The Sentinel(1977),The Changeling(1980).
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Our Father (5/11)
The Sadness (5/12)
The Innocents (5/13)
Men (5/20)
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (5/27)
Top 5 movies watched in october:
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, dir. Robert Aldrich (1962)
- A Tale of Two Sisters, dir. Jee-woon Kim (2003)
- The Innocents, dir. Jack Clayton (1961)
- Hausu, dir. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (1977)
- The Bad Seed, Mervyn LeRoy (1956)
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And our last bunch!
25- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
26- Annihilation
27- Funny Games (1997)
28- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
29- The Innocents (1961)
30- The Taking of Deborah Logan
31- One Cut of the Dead
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I have even more reasons why this marvelously restrained picture remains the gold standard for ghost stories played out on the screen.
The source material from a master of syntactic precision and narrative ambiguity, Henry James; Georges Auric’s haunting (pun intended) score; Freddie Francis is behind the camera and Deborah Kerr is in front of it.
This is a graceful, stunningly effective picture that can put a chill on the most jaded viewers, although it ought to be seen alone on a quiet evening in order to appreciate its delicate spell.
