![]() ![]() Though The Innocents cleaves more closely to The Turn of the Screw than Flanagan’s version does (the Netflix series is a mini anthology of James’ work, blending two of the writer’s other stories in with the events of the novella), the 1961 film invented several elements that reappeared in Flanagan’s series. ![]() We were actively always looking for ways to tip our hat to it.”Īnd they found plenty. ![]() So, it’s one of those films that cinephiles love and horror fans love, but a lot of people don’t know it. Though it employs a lot of the same technique and came out two years prior. “It doesn’t come up as often as The Haunting does. “It’s a movie, I think, that isn’t talked about for whatever reason,” says Flanagan. It’s a film that Flanagan wanted to celebrate in his own adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. “It’s a great way to start … to put up a really beautifully realized adaptation of the same source material, and to start talking to the writers about the things that I love about it and hear the things they love about it.”įor Bly Manor, the version of the same source material chosen was Jack Clayton’s The Innocents, released in 1961 and starring Deborah Kerr. “We did the same thing in with Robert Wise’s The Haunting,” Flanagan tells Den of Geek and other press outlets. Mike Flanagan’s team went out to the Amblin Entertainment screening room to watch a movie. The first day at work for The Haunting of Bly Manor’s writers started with a field trip. ![]()
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