10 Scariest Haunted House Movies Ever Made

The 1960s was something of a golden period for the British haunted house horror movie, and one of the films at the forefront of that was Jack Clayton's The Innocents. Starring Deborah Kerr and adapted from the Henry James short story The Turn of the Screw, the film is a quietly terrifying tale of a woman's gradual descent into madness.

Kerr plays a governess who is dispatched to care for a young girl at an enormous mansion house. The girl's brother returns home after being expelled from boarding school and he begins to show an unsettling, almost flirtatious interest in Kerr's character. Things get even weirder when Kerr is plagued by terrifying visions of a couple who used to live in the house, who seem to have an interest in the children.

In the surprisingly enormous category of films that feature ghostly faces appearing in windows, The Innocents has to appear towards the top of that list. There are scares in this film that are so well-executed they have sent genuine shivers down the spines of viewers for the last 50 years.