# The Innocents (1961)

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**Runtime**: 100 min
**Genres**: Horror, Mystery, Drama
**Directed by**: Jack Clayton
**Written by**: Truman Capote, William Archibald
**Starring**: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin

> *Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Quiet December in the Essex countryside, ice cracking under the garden wall.

A governess arrives to find the children speaking in unison and drawing the house floorplan with their eyes closed.

Children’s ghost stories always leave something moving inside the frame.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, slow-burn, surreal

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