A new nanny is tasked with caring for a pair of disturbed orphans at a creepy estate in rural Maine.
stars as the young governess, Kate, who leaves behind her life in Seattle out of a desire to help a wealthy young girl, orphaned and abandoned by her last teacher.
Flora is indeed a charming and delightful child, though the stern British housekeeper Mrs. Grose is anything but, and Flora’s older brother Miles is entering his teen years angrily and violently.
The script, by “The Conjuring” screenwriters Carey W. Hayes and Chad Hayes, does not hold the viewer’s hand. Explanation and speculation around the mysterious events is jettisoned for tone and atmosphere, which “The Turning” has in spades, thanks to the lush production design by Paki Smith and spectral cinematography by David Ungaro. Smith and Ungaro also worked on the feminist biopic “Mary Shelley,” about the godmother of goth herself.
“The Turning” builds to a deeply disturbing crescendo, then pulls the rug right out from under the audience in a way that seemingly undercuts what came before, an uncovering of dark, violent secrets that offer a new spin on “The Turn of the Screw.” The enigmatic ending doubles down on the ambiguity with which the film has already toyed. It’s less about answers and more about evoking a richly rendered gothic horror vibe as intuition bitterly battles reason.
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