The Innocents (1961)

Great Film overall

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Feels like a ghost story. Cameo appearances of ghostly apparitions, draw on the viewer's attention.The film definitely plays out as a psychological thriller. The artifacts stowed in the old attic: the life- sized dummy, the music box- aid in supporting the ghost story setting.The acting is decent. the gathered talent, they work well off of each other.The children seem to be the catalyst of the haunting; making for an interesting twist.The movie, is based on a well written story; that has the feel of a classic ghost tale.Fans of ghost story novels and films; will enjoy this movie.With very few modern ghost stories filming today, I believe the movie: The Innocents; is worth a look, for possibility of a remake.

Accepting a governess job, a woman arrives at a the large Victorian mansion where she starts to notice the odd behavior of her charges when no one else is present and finds that a deadly secret about the house is affecting her and forces her into a deadly battle to save herself.This here was pretty good when it wanted to be. The biggest one to like about the film here is that this one does the slow-burning payoff the right way which manages to make this one of the best stylistic choices in that field. It should start off with mysterious circumstances that seem reasonable after explanations, yet the longer it goes on the more mysterious they become and the harder to seem reasonable, and the craziness should be exponentially more intense and crazy than those before. This is what's going on here, from the hallucinations, dreams and the weird hide-and-seek game played in the beginning all leading up to grand payoffs later. The last half-hour of this is incredible, being quite fast-paced with a lot of fantastic and really chilling moments brought up because of the ongoing circumstances from before. All of the film's hauntings are creepy and quite chilling which give it a really great and obvious atmosphere which works quite well here in that the place where it occurs is fantastic. This is a marvelously creepy house, with a great layout that recalls the classic haunted houses of the past while still having a lot of it's own good points going for it in the large, Victorian home and then capturing the look and feel of that society. It's also not restricted to hauntings indoors, as there's some good stuff outside the house and in the adjacent grounds, including ponds in the backyard, the gardens around the house and more that provide some great moments all allowing for some strong pop-up shocks of figures standing around the children ominously for the biggest parts here. All of these really help this one as there isn't a whole lot wrong with this one. Most of the flaws here stem from the slow-build pace with a tendency to keep a lot of talking here with the occasional haunting scene to break it up. If lulled in the proper state, it can be easy to see how this one can be construed as a terribly-slow film with nothing happening in it. This is due to the fact that there's a lot of talking in here, with the general feeling that there's either something creepy happening or they're talking about it, leaving this one to give it a really two-sided view without really showing what they're talking about to further the scares. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot wrong with it.Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence.

1 of the most wonderful movie I've ever see...worth watching again, I am going to review this movie on psychological basis, which I believe it is and going a little deeper but not too far. This movie depicts a timeless problems of parents-child relationship and how you should grow your child without fear specially the fear of the God, Satan and related topics, and obviously when love becomes obsession how darkness arrive at the door of happiness do his duty by the help of peoples innocence. A victim child of believing god n devil by the religious conviction inherited by her parents (she mentioned dad but I believe both) and after growing up then becoming a governess who is really naive on her core, and find motherly love on these rather mature & talented children, who saw the reality by who knows may be the Satan. It shows logical contradiction if you try to differentiate so called God from one of his part the Satan, and both serves quite the same purpose or duty to the innocents, perhaps it is Swami Vivekananda's vision, and he is very right, once he said about a religious book that, it is better to play football than to read that holy book. I believe he was trying to say that you must maturely handle or read the book (the holy one) or not read it at all. I would say on the same tone that : it's better to have faith in a Dog than to the so called God/Satan. what? feels offensive enough well you should be, because that's the evidence suggests that's the reality we live in, I just remember 'Robin Hardy's film called the 'Wicker Man' 1973, its a great one. But to conclude about this movie, it's a wonderful story, even without its clear 'shining' of 'The Massacre of The Innocents' and the two paintings of Peter Paul Rubens on this subject. The best British horror film I've ever seen! Thank you!!!

Yes. This 1961 Supernatural-Thriller certainly had its fair share of good points, as well as its not so good points.The one thing that really impressed me about this particular ghost story was that it delivered its eerie, little story quite effectively without spilling even a single drop of blood.I think that, alone, earns The Innocents some rightful and respectful recognition in the realm of "horror". 'Cause, even way back in 1961, a fright flick could never be expected to hold the viewer's rapt attention without the necessity of blood & gore.Anyways - With strong performances given by all of its principal cast members, I thought that the overall subtlety of The Innocents' sinister and nightmarish tale was quite impressive. And I wasn't in the least bit disappointed with this supernatural story as it slowly, but surely, unravelled its mystery of mounting madness that seemed to rise from the depths of a very dark and curious netherworld.