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Compunere în engleza cu tema "My favourite horror film/movie"

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The Innocents (1961)Take all the threat of the unknown from Picnic at Hanging Rock, add in some good old fashioned ghosts possibly possessing creepy kids, and you have The Innocents! Poor Deborah Kerr is always at the mercy of some powerful sinister force that corrupts those under her authority. In Black Narcissus, it was some ancient, native, sinful, but ultimately unnameable force (again, Picnic at Hanging Rock-style). In The Innocents, it's the corrosive spirits of deceased servants who used to work at the home where she's taken a job as governess to two young children. The male servant was apparently The Worst Ever and was violent and sexual toward his girlfriend, the children's old governess, in front of the children. Now he's a ghost and he might be possessing one of the children, who turns out to be kind of creepy and flirtatious with Deborah Kerr. Or maybe it's all in her head and she's seeing things that aren't there and maybe the kid acts creepy because of what he was exposed to. In some ways, the beginning of the film is like Suspiria or Rosemary's Baby. People are acting a little weird and something might be awry but surely our heroine can't be in danger! While the girls in the other two films discover the unholy truths of their respective residences, Deborah Kerr gets a little creepy herself and starts badgering the kids about ghosts and imposing figures in the distance. The best parts of The Innocents are the scenes where the "ghosts" can be spotted - a black-clad woman across a pond, a shadowed head atop a tower, a face in a dark window. These are the things that propel the film into truly scary territory. Though more effective in the novel the film is based on, The Turn of the Screw, the ambiguities in the characters' relationships are also unsettling. This comes to a head at the climax of the film (oh, Henry James, I hope you'd be proud), and again, there is no distinct resolution, only more uncertainty and unsavory possibilities. As is becoming clear to me as I write about these films, ambiguity is horrifying