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· Year: 1992
· Also known as: Obsession: Besessene Seelen
· Director: Rusty Lemorande
· Writer: Rusty Lemorande, Henry James (novel)
· Cast: Patsy Kensit, Julian Sands
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One of many adaptations of The Turn of the Screw.
· Based on the book by Henry James.
· Put to film at least ten times:
· 1959, with Ingrid Bergman
· The Innocents (1961, Deborah Kerr)
· 1982, with Helen Donath
· The Haunting of Helen Walker (1985, Valerie Bertinelli)
· Otra vuelta de tuerca (1985)
· 1990, with Helen Field
· Presence of Mind (1990, Sadie Frost)
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· Book: Hardcover, large print · Book: Paperback, Norton Critical · Book: Paperback, critical Amazon.de
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This updating of Henry James' story involves a young governess moving into a mansion in 1960s England to take care of two children who may be possessed by the spirits of their former caretakers.
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Director Rusty Lemorande turns the Screw up a couple of notches by supercharging some of the supernatural occurannces in this film, and as a result events feel too rushed and the haunting blatant. Patsy Kensit is actually quite good as the governess, and the sets are interesting as well, but the whole affair is overstated. Though perhaps my opinion of this film has suffered by subconscious comparison with The Innocents, the nearly perfect 1961 adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.
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