The Turn of the Screw

The Turning is a modern adaptation of Turn of the Screw that is also due for release in January 2020, directed by Floria Sigismondi (Handmaid's Tale) and starring Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things).

The Turn of the Screw is a gothic ghost story, described by Oscar Wilde as 'a most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale'. An unnamed governess lives in an isolated country house with her two charges. When the governess begins to see ghostly apparitions roaming the grounds, she does everything she can to protect the children, but the situation soon spirals out of control.

This uneasy and sinister novella has influenced a number of films including The Innocents (1961) and The Others (2001), and remains one of the most iconic horror stories of all time.

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Season 2 of the popular Haunting of Hill House (Netflix) series will be based on The Turn of the Screw and is dated to air in January 2020.