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A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Rather than write a whole review, let's just say it's a remake of The Innocents. It's good enough for most people to watch, I watched plenty of 'B' movies way back when theaters had double features on Saturday afternoons. They threw in some enticing nudity of Miss Sobieski to bring in the men, who will bring their women with them. Like most remakes, it doesn't compare to the original. I don't understand why so many Hollywood people think they can improve on the classics, and then somehow convince others to give them millions of dollars to do it. And they wonder why we don't go to see their crap movies.

In A Dark Place would be classed as a psychological horror/thriller. It stars the underrated Leelee Sobieski or as I like to call her Helen Hunts mini-me.Telling the story of a girl hired as a nanny of two less than usual children at a wealthy estate and her dwindling mental health.Also starring long forgotten English actress Tara Fitzgerald from the likes of Brassed Off (1996) this is an utter mess of a film from opening credits to closing.Immensely boring, poorly written and incredibly crappily made In A Dark Place is an instantly forgettable film with practically nothing going for it at all.The Good: Leelee Sobieski The Bad: Weak writing Terrible plot Bad finale Awful child actors Things I Learnt From This Movie: It may be roles like this that drove Sobieski to near retirement

Flora and Miles have a new governess in the slightly mental, Anna Veigh (Leelee Sobieski) whom gets quite obsessed about the 'wellfare' of the children and the mysteries surrounding the previous governess. Truth be told, her frequent nightmares don't seem to help matters. This overtly sexualized rendition of 'Turn of the Screw" ranks among the bottom amongst all the numerous adaptations of the story, yet it has two things going for it and both lay underneath Miss Sobieski's magnificent bathrobe, who needs acting talent? (That was rhetorical by the way)My Grade: D

After reading many of the comments and poor ratings of this flick, by some here, I conclude a mature motion picture as this wasted upon you. A pearl before swines.First the director himself states in the DVD release this is NOT a remake of the Turning of The Screw, and further he is not a fan of horror flicks, as he says, disturbing things happen everyday in real life.And so it is Anna Veigh, a sexually molested and tortured child attempts to help other children so molested by becoming an art therapist. However, she is pawed over and fired by an old school master who in attempt to keep her quiet, finds her a new position as a Nanny with a boy and girl who have been orphaned and now are the charges of their wealthy uncle. The uncle would rather be totally free of the responsibility.The drama unfolds quietly and with a smoldering subtlety that only true drama and mystery lover could appreciate. Sorry kids no bug eyed monsters, disappointed? And no this isn't a female sex flesh flick as some lechers had hoped.It concerns a metaphor and secrets. Each character has a secret and slowly the viewer pieces the parts together.It is assumed Miss Veigh is in fact, losing her mind and imagining dangers and ghosts.She in fact confronts her own molestation and rape as a child, time and again. She like the children is haunted. It appears the previous Nanny, a Miss Jessel and her lover Peter Quint (names borrowed from the James novel), were lovers. It also appears they included the children in their sexual games and haunted them as Miss Veigh is haunted by her childhood molestations.I very much enjoyed the frank and tasteful nudity, the lesbian scenes.The property manager Miss Gross, portrayed elegantly by Tara Fitzgerald, had been in love with Miss Jessel and also courts Miss Veigh.The words, " its not working out" precede each sexual exploitation of the Anna Veigh. Indeed, Miles and Floras seem possessed by the old perverted team, Miss Jessel and Peter Quint.Both Flora and Miles have symptoms very often associated with children who have been sexually abused.The end is very sad and unless your understand what is going on you'll miss it. Why is Miles running from Miss Veigh? Could it be when he blows the candle out he again is sexually exploited? Flora sleeps with her new Nanny and cryptically says, " Do anything YOU like."The last scenes are metaphors for sexually abused children who want to die and feel dirty, responsible for the abuse they received.This is a misunderstood masterpiece. I hope the child actors, didn't quite grasp what it was really all about.See it and try to understand what the director is attempting to put across. Most here are clueless about this flick.