Then a 1948 TV movie of Berkeley Square, and more than 120 others on through the decades. Topping the list (chronologically at least) is The Turning, the latest of 27 adaptations of The Turn of the Screw, James’ 1898 horror novella about a governess convinced that the country estate where she works is haunted. – aggressive drumming from Finn WolfhardFilmed versions of The Turn of the Screw date back to 1955, when the TV variety show Omnibus presented an adaptation starring Geraldine Page as the governess. The BBC produced one in 2004, and also made a TV movie out of the novel in 2009, starring a pre-Downton Abbey Michelle Dockery. So what does The Turning have that the other 26 don’t, aside from a unique take on the title?

Source: National Post January 28, 2020 21:56 UTC