The Turning (2020)

"Everything is very ham-fisted and crass, with nothing like the ambiguous shimmer of the original story or the style and elegance of the 1961 Jack Clayton film version..."

"The elements are familiar - jump scares, creaking doors, mutilated dolls, tailor's dummies, reflections in mirrors and windows - but they are combined with skill. The hairs on my arms rose at least twice."

"The plot doesn't allow for an ebb and flow of tension, but instead serves up a steady parade of clunks and whoos and creepy dolls that quickly becomes tedious."

"It's the movie's open-endedness and literary vestiges that sit uneasily with its repetitive goosings, which manifest in exceedingly familiar ways."

"Expect smart horror fans to avoid it - and and smarter ones to seek out the definitive version of the tale, Jack Clayton's old, elegantly elusive The Innocents."

"The Turning sacrifices narrative and emotional coherence in favour of a series of would-be scary set pieces that seem mainly designed to discourage aspiring nannies from pursuing the vocation."

"Lacking spine-tingling dread, taut tension, and the deservingly provocative ending needed to make its modern sentiments land, this re-imagining is less than a classic."