The Turning is inspired by Henry James's novel The Turning of the Screw (which is also the story of The Haunting of Hill House Season 2).
The Turning is inspired by Hanry James' The Turning of The Screw, the same novel on which the second season of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House is based, and tells the story of a nanny who is hired to care for two lonely children. in a mansion Upon arrival, it's clear that these are normal kids, but the more time she spends there, the scarier things get and the nanny starts to lose her sanity, or so they want her to think.
Finn Wolfhard plays an orphan named Miles who lives in a mansion with his sister Flora (The Florida Project's Brooklyn Prince), the children are cared for by a new nanny named Kate, Mackenzie Davis (Black Mirror, Terminator), who arrives thinking they that would be the easiest job of your life, it clearly isn't.
Miles and Flora talk to people who aren't there, say that there are places in the mansion that are off-limits, and start behaving strangely from one day to the next. Miles is clearly a psychopath and even tries to kill her babysitter by slamming her head against a mirror.
The Turning is a modern version of the novel and surely has some differences, but the original story goes something like this: “A young woman's first job: governess to two strangely beautiful, strangely distant, strangely silent children, Miles and Flora, in an abandoned farm... A farm haunted by an evil that calls. Half-seen figures peering out of dark towers and dusty windows, silent, dirty ghosts that, day after day, night after night, draw nearer and nearer. With mounting horror, the helpless governess realizes that devilish creatures want the children, who seek to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, possess their souls... But worse, much worse, the governess discovers that Miles and Flora are not they fear the evil that lurks. Because they love the walking dead as much as they love the dead."
It's no secret that there is no villain more terrifying than an evil child, for some reason, their innocence and vulnerability make them even darker, scarier, and more twisted, and Miles and Flora have everything to become the next protagonists of your nightmares.
This film does not belong to the saga of The Conjuring but deals with similar themes, the difference is that here the evil spirits are not the most dangerous, the children who are bullied seem to want to be bullied and are open to living with them, even if that ends up scaring the poor babysitter to death who didn't know what she was in for when she decided to take the job.
In defense of the children, Kate must have realized that this job was too good to be true when she saw the mansion shrouded in mist and she discovered two pale children waiting for her. Also, the only other adult is a housekeeper who clearly wants nothing to do with them.
Henry James's novel is classic and we are going to have the opportunity to see who interprets it better, Netflix with Hill House or the producers of The Conjuring with The Turning.
