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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0012236211709
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 43811
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Captivating and disturbing, this intense psychodrama with its haunting, twisted notion of sexuality puts a new spin on the characters from Henry James' celebrated ghost story, 'The Turn of the Screw.' MARLON BRANDO stars as QUINT, a gardener who powerfully impacts the lives of young orphans Miles and Flora, who are left in the care of their governess (STEPHANIE BEACHAM) and housekeeper (THORA HIRD). Obsessed with the charismatic Quint, the children are mesmerized by his warped views of love and life and soon pattern their own lives after his crude, secret courtship with their governess. When the housekeeper finds out about the lovers' relationship, she decides to fire them, leaving the bereft children to take matters into their own chilling hands.
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Rating:  - The Night Comers
I'm a big fan of Stephanie Beacham so I purchased this video. It's a very strange movie, but I did like it--but not the ending.
Rating:  - Interesting Prequel To Henry James' "Turn Of The Screw"
Have you ever watched a theatrical version of Henry James' "Turn of the Screw" and wondered how the groundskeeper, Peter Quint, and the governess, Ms. Jessel, became ghosts? "The Nightcomers" is an interesting, creative story of how they are gruesomely murdered.
Naturally, Marlon Brando ("The Island of Dr. Moreau") is excellent as the perverse Quint who has a sadomasochistic relationship with the beautiful Miss Jessel, (buxom Stephanie Beacham of "Schizo" and "And Now the Screaming Starts). Orphans Miles and Flora are left to their own devises because their wealthy uncle is away on business. Therefore, they spend too much time spying on Quint and Ms. Jessel. The children develop perverse, amoral beliefs about love, life, and the hereafter. They learn that pain is good and hating someone means that you love them.
Beautifully shot and well directed, "The Nightcomers" is an interesting example of gothic horror. Unfortunately, it is very slow paced. The modern viewer will become too bored. It doesn't pick up any steam until the final ten minutes. The finale is horrifying and shocking, but it is not worth the wait.
It is recommended that you rent "The Nightcomers" before purchasing.
Rating: - brando overlooked again!
Brando was once again overlooked in this brilliant performance. the movie itself might not be as good as "the innocents", but his acting is superb. he was nominated for a BAFTA, but not an OSCAR. widescreen format shows beautiful country. very worthwhile, though sordid story as expected.
Rating: - A curiosity
The famous prequel to "The Innocents" is finally available on DVD, but sadly it could never come close to the subtle perfection of that classic. Still, it's still an interesting film. Starring Marlon Brando and Stephanie Beacham, it imagines a possible scenario that may have been played out between Quint and Miss Jessell (who are already dead at the start of the action in the original novel, "The Turn Of The Screw"), and the two children who interact with them. A new governess is left with the psychological mess they left behind in the minds of these children, and that is the role played by Deborah Kerr in the 1960 classic, but it forms just the tail end of the film we have here.
First of all, Marlon Brando does a good job as the gardener/handyman. He portrays just the right amount of latent brutality and sex appeal to convince you that a prim governess could fall under his spell. I'm no Brando expert, and it may be that he is just playing himself, but it works...my only quibble is his rather thickly laid-on Irish accent which sounds a bit too forced to totally convince. Stephanie Beacham also fares well as the governess, although her character is sketched in far less detail. The two children are played rather woodenly, but to be fair they (and the rest of the cast) are hampered by a pretty hideous script which thinks it is approximating the style of talking in England in Victorian times, with lots of "pray tell me" and "you scoundrel" type of dialogue, and nobody ever uses contractions, which ... Read More
Rating: - Brando Makes This Work
Chilling, tense, compelling take on The Turn of the Screw. Brando plays a ruffian gardener/caretaker who has some of his very own ideas about life, love, and nature. He has totally under his spell the two newly-orphaned children living in the house, as well as their buxom nanny. The story is fascinating from the first scene and never lets up. Danger is ever-present, yet when it strikes you are shocked and surprised. Some of the sex scenes between Brando and a lovely young Stepahnie Beacham push the envelope, to the point where you would almost call this softcore, because of the exposed personal parts and the S&M nature of some of these scenes. Some also might be disturbed by the two adolescent children playing at some of these scenarios, they having spied on the couple at night. But none of that is gratuituous, it is all part of the story, and if that doesn't bother you you will love the film.
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