努力的繼承原著的模糊敘事，但效果不佳，心裏有鬼的是誰一目了然，女教師性壓抑的暗示過於明顯。哥特古堡的詭異氛圍感還行，攝影精致。

前半段略悶，但修羅場演變成鬧劇後倒是很好笑。。。女配很討喜可愛，是個畫龍點睛的角色。

性壓抑與欲望覺醒；早熟兒童與單身女教師；縈繞在古宅上空的舊事陰影；哥特式打光加分不少

期望越大失望越大。差。

4.5. One of the few genuinely frightening films. The ambiguity in Henry James' original has been reduced by several degrees to a more explicit cautionary tale about sexual depravity and repression, but Clayton's adaptation manages to create an unsettling and hypnotic psychological maze of its own with fluid, seemingly effortless long takes, the distorting and contrasting effects of the simultaneous uses of deep focus and extra-wide angle lens, an eerie atmospheric soundscape, and Deborah Kerr's perpetually frightened expression.