‘The Turning’ Trailer: Mackenzie Davis Is A Nanny At A Haunted House
Henry James’The Turn of the Screwis going to be all the rage next year. Not only is Mike Flanagan using the book as inspiration for the second season ofThe Haunting of Hill House, but there’s a new movie based on the book as well. The movie isThe Turning, and it starsMackenzie Davisas a nanny who ends up at a potentially haunted house.Stranger Things’Finn WolfhardandThe Florida Project’sBrooklynn Princeplay the kids in Davis' charge. WatchThe Turningtrailer below.
The Turning Trailer
I’m not sure whyThe Turn of the Screwis such a hot item all of a sudden, but let’s just roll with it. InThe Turning, “At a mysterious estate in the Maine countryside, newly appointed nanny Kate (Mackenzie Davis) is charged with the care of two disturbed orphans, Flora (Brooklynn Prince) and Miles (Finn Wolfhard). She quickly discovers that both the children and the house are harboring dark secrets and things may not be as they appear.”
Henry James' novella was released in 1898, butThe Turningmoves the action up to the 1990s. “We’ve taken this story, and modernized it, and placed it in the 1990s,” directorFloria SigismonditoldEW. “It follows a nanny who is looking [for] a life change, and when she arrives at the house she meets two orphans, Flora and Miles. They start to act a little strange and she senses that they’re harboring a secret, that they’re hiding something from her. She quickly realizes that there’s something wrong in the house.” Sigismondi went on to explain that the ’90s setting allowed the film to “take away the technology and really drown yourself in the environment.”
I’m always up for new ghost stories, and I’m glad Mackenzie Davis is getting more and more film roles, because she’s the bee’s knees. That said, it’s going to be very hard for this film to top the ultimate adaptation of the novel, the super creepy 1961 filmThe Innocents. Still, it’ll be interesting to see howThe Turningcompares to the upcoming second season ofThe Haunting of Hill House, titledThe Haunting of Bly Manor, which uses the same setup – nanny at a spooky old house where there may or may not be ghosts.
