Review – The Innocents

Ugh. Even movie versions of Henry James are boring. Actually, this might not have been as bad if we hadn’t just finished watching The Haunting, a movie from a similar era that likewise relied more on the cerebral than the visceral and yet was nowhere near as dull. Deborah Kerr plays nanny to two treacly-yet-creepy English children who live in a haunted estate in the country. Every once in awhile the picture will conjure a spooky moment or indulge in some genuinely disturbing (though not graphic) sexuality. But you really have to be in the mood for a dry, slow-paced, shock-free ghost story before even considering taking this one on. Mildly amusing