The Nightcomers

1971

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 3176 3.2K

bondage corruption exploitation prequel murder mansion

Plot summary

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Director

Michael Winner Photo
Michael Winner

Top cast

Verna Harvey Photo
Verna Harvey as Flora
Stephanie Beacham Photo
Stephanie Beacham as Miss Jessel
Anna Palk Photo
Anna Palk as New Governess
Harry Andrews Photo
Harry Andrews as Master of the House
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
806.11 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 2
1.53 GB
1904*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbblankenship 5 / 10

Twisted

Dark and twisted but not in the good way. Heavy doses of female hysteria and misogyny. Just very mean spirited. Cruel treatment of animals as well. Supposedly about innocence lost. But only at the cost of the viewer.
Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Original prequel to Henry James classic with good setting ad gorgeous cinematography

A prequel to Henry James's ¨The turn of the screw¨ wherein a worker named Peter Quint (Marlon Brando) trysts with the governess Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham)of two malicious children named Miles and his younger sister Flora (Harvey and Chris Ellis) who are in her care and located at Bly manor.Yet another special version of the Henry James classic with drama, tension, sexual games and splendid exteriors. Good performance from Marlon Brando as sadist Irish gardener and Stephanie Beacham as the young, too-impressionable governess and submitted to masochist relations with Quint, whom she thinks is corrupting the innocent kids . Furthermore the watchful and voyeurs children possessed by evil who think which lovers unite in death , they are finely played by Ellis and Harvey. And the housekeeper performed by Thora Hird who believes Peter Quint influence on the young children was thought to be malevolent. The film packs evocative photography in a good restoring by Robert Paynter and sensational musical score by Jerry Fielding. The picture is acceptably directed by Michael Winner. He had important commercial success in the mid-70 with his fetish actor, Charles Bronson , achieving various box-office hits, as ¨Deathwish I and II, furthermore ¨The mechanics¨ and ¨The stone killer¨.Other adaptations about ¨Henry James' The turn of the screw¨ are the followings : Turn of the Screw (1974) by Dan Curtis with Lynn Redgrave; (1989) by Graeme Clifford with Amy Irving and David Hemmings; (1992) by Rutsy Lemorande with Patsy Kensit, Julian Sands and Stephane Audran; (1999) by Ben Bolt with Jodhi May, Pam Ferris and Colin Firth. And of course the classic and best version ,the incredibly eerie rendition titled ¨The innocents (61)¨ by Jack Clayton with Deborah Kerr, Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens where the protagonist begins to see the specters of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint .
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