Jack ClaytonCast
Deborah Kerr Peter Wyngarde Megs Jenkins 
Michael Redgrave Martin Stephens Pamela Franklin
Credits
Written by: 
Henry James John Mortimer
Plot
A governess hired to care for two orphaned children at a remote English country house becomes convinced that the house is haunted by ghosts, in an elegant, scary adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.
Sinekatalog’s take
A classic elegant, scary ghost story with Deborah Kerr.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (36,765 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- Psycho 1960 · Alfred Hitchcock · IMDb 8.5 · Similar genres
- Don't Look Now 1973 · Nicolas Roeg · IMDb 7.1 · Same movement
- The Birds 1963 · Alfred Hitchcock · IMDb 7.6 · Similar genres
- The Haunting 1963 · Robert Wise · IMDb 7.4 · Viewers also liked
- Peeping Tom 1960 · Michael Powell · IMDb 7.6 · Same movement
- Mother Joan of the Angels 1961 · Jerzy Kawalerowicz · IMDb 7.5 · Similar genres