The Turn of the Screw (1992)

Director
Rusty Lemorande

Main cast
Patsy Kensit; Stéphane Audran; Julian Sands

Genres
Horror, Foreign

Description
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds that the two children are not quite what they seem to be--in fact, they are possessed by the spirits of the evil Quint and his lover.


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