727 - The Innocents (1961)

A rambling old English manor.  Maze-like hallways leading to shuttered, dusty rooms. Whisperings of derangement, obsession, and suicide.  Music boxes in minor keys.  Creepy, dead-eyed children who speak in words beyond their years.  Fog.  Silhouettes in windows.  Antique clown dolls seemingly moving on their own accord.  This movie might have more gothic horror tropes in it than there are gothic horror tropes.  Director Jack Clayton’s The Innocents has atmosphere to spare with Deborah Kerr leading a cast of unnerving characters in a classic tale of Victorian horror. 

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957).