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The Innocents

(Jack Clayton, 1961, UK)

1. A black and white closeup of a woman standing in front of a window with a man staring at her through the window.
Aug 07, 2025 7:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students
Free for Ohio State students

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request.

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A genuinely frightening classic that seems elegant and genteel but increasingly becomes creepy and atmospheric.

One of the definitive and most influential supernatural Gothic films, The Innocents stars Deborah Kerr (An Affair to Remember, Black Narcissus) as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect there is something very, very wrong with her precious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James’s classic novella The Turn of the Screw and cowritten by Truman Capote, The Innocents is a triumph of storytelling, sound design, widescreen cinematography, and chilling atmosphere! (100 mins., DCP) 

Goreometer: 1 / 4
OK for scaredy-cats. 

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The Innocents, courtesy of Walt Disney Studios.

"One of the 11 scariest horror films of all time."
Martin Scorsese

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The Innocents

Aug 07, 2025 7:00 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students
Free for Ohio State students

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

A limited number of listening devices are available upon request.

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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