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Haunted Hangovers: The Innocents
October 16, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Co-presented by Hangover Matinees and Friday Night Frights
Live set by DJ Mean Mr. Mustard
A Freudian, intensified adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw–co-written by Truman Capote–Jack Clayton’s The Innocents is a genuinely terrifying meditation on repressed sexuality and the inevitability of children’s loss of innocence as adulthood begins to creep in, taken to its extreme in the form of possession. Directed with elegance, nuance (rare for a film in the “evil child” canon), and a remarkable handle of atmosphere, mood and setting, The Innocents pushes everything so far that its final scene resulted in an X-rating upon release in 1961.
Dir. Jack Clayton, 1961, DCP, 100 min.
