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The Innocents
Why this pick
Its stately country-house setting, child-centred unease, and refusal to settle what is supernatural or psychological closely echo The Other’s elegant, lingering dread.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1972 1h 48m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Why this pick
A sunlit period idyll slowly turns uncanny through hushed pacing, suggestive imagery, and an ambiguity that matters more than any tidy explanation.
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Why this pick
It shares The Other’s 1930s rural world, watchful child perspective, and deceptively gentle visual beauty shadowed by private fears and secrets.
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The Devil's Backbone
Why this pick
Its Spanish Civil War orphanage combines ghost-story atmosphere with a child’s vulnerable viewpoint, family-like tensions, and melancholy rather than blunt shocks.
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The Reflecting Skin
Why this pick
A child’s imagination refracts adult cruelty into unsettling rural folklore, with the same contrast between bright pastoral images and deeply disturbed undercurrents.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
It's a seemingly idyllic summer in 1935, and identical twins Niles and Holland Perry play on the bucolic family farm. Holland is an amoral mischief maker while Niles is more sympathetic. Niles carries a tobacco tin with him containing several secret trinkets, including the Perry family ring, which had been handed down to Holland, the older twin. Their obnoxious cousin Russell finds them in the apple cellar below the barn—a place they are not supposed to play—and sees the contents of the tobacco tin. Russell states that the ring was supposed to be buried, and promises to "tell on" Niles to his father, Niles' Uncle George. Uncle George padlocks the door to the cellar, but there is another stairway inside the barn, giving them access.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Norma Connolly
Aunt Vee
Victor French
Angelini
Loretta Leversee
Winnie
Lou Frizzell
Uncle George
Portia Nelson
Mrs. Rowe
Jenny Sullivan
Torrie
Jack Collins
Mr. P.C. Pretty
Ed Bakey
Chan-yu