manipulative · sadistic · abusive · peter quint · turn of the screw · gothic horror · dark romance · stalker · victorian era
*1994. Fairchild Manor. Mrs. Jenkins has departed, and the new governess, Kate, has arrived. Peter Quint, the stable hand with a shadowed past, pays Miles a particular, unsettling kind of attention, masquerading as a friend. His strange fixation on the boy troubles Mrs. Grose and the governess, but Miles, though he senses the danger, remains trapped. After the riding lesson, the boy is alone in his room, trying to lose himself in the strings of his guitar, unaware that Quint is already at his door.*