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Old as I am, I know nothing. Why people in this world hate what is not them. Why they fear all they don't know. Why they hate themselves most of all. For being weak. For being old. For being everything altogether that is not godlike. Which of us can be that? Monsters all, are we not?

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Michael Winner, The Nightcomers, 1971

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THE NIGHTCOMERS (1971)

This is an actual prequel to “The Innocents” (1961). It stars freakin’ Marlon Brando (of, among other movies, “Apocalypse Now” (1979)) as Peter Quint and Stephanie Beacham (whom we last saw in “And Now the Screaming Starts!” (1973)) as Miss Jessel. If you recall “The Innocents,” Miss Giddens fears that the spirits of the two adults are attempting to possess the bodies of her young charges, Miles and Flora, but there’s no evidence that this isn’t anything other than her own delusions. This prequel doesn’t really add anything to the story and shouldn’t have been made.

Anyway, this movie starts with Miles and Flora’s parents having just died. Their new guardian doesn’t want anything to do with them and promptly leaves them alone at their big estate house. Their caretakers are Quint (the former valet and now gardener), Miss Jessel (the governess), and Mrs. Grose (the housekeeper). Quint and Jessel are carrying on an affair. One night Miles goes to spy on them and he watches as Quint ties Jessel up and then manhandles her naked body, essentially degrading her. Afterwards Jessel is saying that she expects love to be gentle, but Quint replies that “if you think there’s no hurt when you love, then you’re a hypocrite,” which is utter bullshit. Anyway, soon enough, Miles is tying up Flora and reenacting what he saw Quint do. Grose finds them and Miles says, “We have been doing sex.”

Grose tries to put a stop to the adults’ affair. She forbids Quint from entering the house, but the children arrange for the adults to be alone together in a little tower. Jessel basically tells Quint that she doesn’t mind their weird sex, but their relationship is over. He says that they could live together, but she calls his home a “pigsty.” This enrages Quint, who repeatedly slaps Jessel and then chokes her out. The children, who have been spying on the adults, run away. The next day as Grose and Jessel are arguing about Jessel’s relationship, they hear the children fighting. They run to the little tower and see the children fighting, just like Quint and Jessel. The adults separate the children, but Flora shouts, “I was meant to die.” Afterwards, Grose tells Jessel that she has to leave.

The children have one final conversation with Quint, who says that dead people can meet each other if they love each other, and also that “if you love someone then you want to kill them.” That night Flora lures Jessel to a little gazebo in the middle of a pond, but Miles has put a hole in the boat. Jessel, who can’t swim, panics as the boat fills with water and falls into the pond and drowns. Flora is watching from the gazebo and says, “We don’t want you to go. We want you to stay with us…we love you.” The next day Grose tells Quint that he must also leave. He goes to the pond to throw in some rocks, and he finds Jessel’s body! He leaves it on the shore and goes to the pub. When he returns later Miles shoots him in the side of his chest with an arrow! Miles approaches Quint and says, “Miss Jessel is waiting,” and he puts another arrow into the man’s head! He rolls the body into the pond. The movie ends with the arrival of a new governess.

This was a thorough “meh.” The writing was lackluster; there was no tension and scant sense of horror or moral terror. There were some pretty images at least, with really nice colors. The plot was just all over the place, from erotic thriller to commentary on the English class system to weird child killer movie. I have mixed feelings about Brando in this movie. On one hand, he’s Marlon Brando. He had an unmistakable ease at acting. On the other hand, Quint was a disgusting character. Instead of being a cruel and menacing figure, he was just a childish and immature buffoon. At the beginning of the movie, he caused a little frog to die by smoke inhalation and said that the frog liked it. We were subjected to an interminable five minute sequence where he tells the children about how his own father tried to sell a horse to “gypsies.” As described above, he equated love with pain and degradation, all in a terrible Irish accent, almost incomprehensible at parts. Ultimately, his death, and Jessel’s also, carried no weight because we didn’t care about the characters. “The Nightcomers” added nothing to “The Innocents” and, I’m sure, is soon forgotten.

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S2 E3 "The nightcomers"

I couldn't have cried more in my life than at this episode.

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Penny Dreadful S2E3

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A obra "A outra volta do parafuso" adaptada em filmes para você ver no streaming!

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I knew it the first time I felt you, this danger. I wanted to scream and bolt the door, curl up in my little bed and sleep and sleep. But you came closer. I felt you every step across the moor.

Joan Clayton