完美的超五星作品。影像本身带有英国传统的气息，剧本则是一出完美的社会预言，一开始就远离的父辈象征在二战中失去的整个社会的父权，小孩子象征对现状不满的青年一代，家庭教师象征新来初来乍到的规则和适应规则的上一代人，鬼影是模拟上一代人对青年人的不信任而造成的怀疑与猜忌！就这么设计，太猛了！

总拿性器官说事儿只会越来越无聊

4.5. One of the few genuinely frightening films. The ambiguity in Henry James' original has been reduced by several degrees to a more explicit cautionary tale about sexual depravity and repression, but Clayton's adaptation manages to create an unsettling and hypnotic psychological maze of its own with fluid, seemingly effortless long takes, the distorting and contrasting effects of the simultaneous uses of deep focus and extra-wide angle lens, an eerie atmospheric soundscape, and Deborah Kerr's perpetually frightened expression.

这个女主绝对是甜心，在精神病母亲的生活囚禁世界里生成的性格好好，天真无邪。 感谢男主没有那么堕落，救了女主带她感受世界

1960s 相当高水准的心理恐怖片