Review: And How Slowly It Turns
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 15, 2013
The Turn of the Screw follows a young governess looking after a small girl and boy at an English country estate.  She begins seeing ghosts soon after taking the job.I think it is more than a little unfair to judge older works by the modern standards, particularly when that judgment has less to do with the quality of the work and the enjoyment it brings you than simply marking it down for a failure to follow modern conventions that actually has nothing to do with the quality of the work.  And I usually very much enjoy the old classics.  The Turn of the Screw, however, is probably a good example of something modern works are much better at.  I found the suspense didn't work nearly as well as it should have, more tedious than tense, and the end was weak (on that point, at least, perhaps I have become hardened by modern horror).