As promised, Deja Vu will look back at movies that have scared the bejesus out of the Media Librarian over the years. Though relatively fearless now, she was a timid child. The Innocents was the first movie, apart from Darby O'Gill and the Little People (very frightening banshee scene) to terrify her cinematically.
It's a ghost story, adapted from Henry James' Turn of the Screw.
It is still scary today, thanks in part to cinematography by Freddie Francis. We have it on a crummy pan and scan VHS version, but the DVD is on order--
