The Turning is a dead end – WORLD – WORLD News Group

Somebody had to know what was going on. It wasnt poor Kate (played by Mackenzie Davis), the nanny in the new film The Turning taking care of two children on an expansive estate haunted by mysterious apparitions.

It wasnt this reviewer, either, confounded by the films abrupt ending. One assumes that somebody was Hollywood veteran Steven Spielberg, the films executive producer.

He oversaw an update of The Turn of the Screw, an 1898 novella by Henry James, to a 1990s setting. But theres no updating of thriller tricks: Doors creak, mannequins twitch, and ghoulish faces fog mirrors. Been there, jumped at that. (The Turning is rated PG-13 for terror, violence, brief strong language, and suggestive content.)

If nothing else, kudos to Kate, who perseveres at a new job most people would resign after the first nights weird whispers. But she promised the children shed stay, so she tiptoes down dark halls and peeks into unexplored rooms searching for answers. The sweet little girl and unruly teen boy in Kates charge say little about the previous nannys sudden departure and the riding instructors death. Creepy housekeeper Mrs. Grose (Barbara Marten) isnt an ideal workplace colleague, either.

Stylishly shot, passably scary, but ultimately unsatisfying: Everybody knows a thriller should wrap up like a whodunit, with the source of the mystery revealed, or give viewers a puzzle to ponder. A film called The Turning should have at least one good twist.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero