The Nightcomers R

Two Children. Two Adults. One Unspeakable Crime.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 7, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1971
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 263
Rating: 4/10 -- ...positively reviewed upon initial release, and Brando was nominated for a BAFTA, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Full Review
TheArtsStl
May 7, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Michael Winner's film ends where James's tale begins, and it is a deflating attempt to flesh out that which was never meant to be fleshed out, describing in sordid detail the love affair between the mistress and the groundskeeper and how it affected the t
DVDLaser
Jun 15, 2007
Rating: B -- Michael Winner's rare, ambitious film tries to reimagine the prequel to Henry James' famous novel and its characters, offering Marlon Brando one of his most malevolent and disturbing roles; a good companion piece to The Innocents. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Sep 23, 2008
Alas, Michael Winner, a gentleman not notably renowned for any kind of subtlety, has produced and directed the whole enterprise and it's painful to watch him make the wrong plodding step at almost every moment of the film. Full Review
The Spectator
Sep 30, 2015
Has occasional moments where Brando's genius shines through. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Jan 8, 2020
Rating: 5/5 -- Strips the artistry of the Henry James original and leaves us with a hairy, overweight, naked and sweating Brando brutally kneading Stephanie Beacham's breasts into new shapes
PopMatters
May 2, 2008

Product Description:

Isolated in a traditional English country manor, two rich orphans--Miles (Christopher Ellis) and Flora (Verna Harvey)--have only their nurse, their housekeeper, and a strange gardener named Quint (Marlon Brando) to provide them with company and care. The youngsters are particularly intrigued by Quint's mannerisms, intuition, and omniscience. Witnessing Quint and his prurient relationship with their nurse, Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), profoundly influences their budding sexual desires, and soon the children begin to mimic their caretakers. Things take a drastic turn however, when the odd parental figures seem as if they're going to split up and the children take violent measures to secure an eternal union.

Teetering somewhere between psychodrama and psychedelia, NIGHTCOMERS is an aesthetically captivating film. Michael Winner breathes life into a whimsical story unveiling the origin of the children from the Henry James novel, TURN OF THE SCREW. Brando's performance as the seemingly wholesome gardener is eerie, and the shocking ending of NIGHTCOMERS is truly haunting.

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