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The Turning is utterly ridiculous and not worth any of your time


THE second of the two horrors out this week and neither are very good.

Henry James’ 1898 horror story The Turn Of The Screw gets a relatively modern update, set in the grunge-soaked early Nineties.

 This film is utterly ridiculous and not worth your time.

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This film is utterly ridiculous and not worth your time.Credit: AP:Associated Press

Mackenzie Davis (so good in Tully and Black Mirror but wasted here) plays Kate, hired to teach a couple of orphans on their estate in Maine, US.

Once there, the children and house reveal their secrets – and they aren’t pleasant. According to reports, Steven Spielberg oversaw the filming, calling it a “passion project”. If that is true, it makes me sad.

That the man who gave us Jaws and Poltergeist had even a smidgen of a hand in this relentlessly dull barrage of cheap tricks is beyond me.

It tries far too hard – whether it’s the casting of Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard as Miles, the brattish kid, or the intentionally ambiguous but unintentionally hilarious ending that had me screaming at the screen.

Why on earth would a woman, fresh from being attacked by a scary being, and covered in blood, strip to her knickers and stick around the house?

There is not a single person in the world who wouldn’t have legged it two minutes into the film (I wish I had).

Utterly ridiculous and not worth your time.


The Turning (15) 94mins

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