Henry James' masterwork The Turn of the Screw is recycled again in a stodgy version that does the venerable ghost story no favours.

A miscast Valerie Bertinelli tries hard as the governess who has to look after two creepy children, but she doesn't have the necessary authority and repressed inner power for the role.

Diana Rigg, Michael Gough, Paul Rhys and Dominic Guard have all done better work, hampered by a Hugh Whitemore's teleplay that just doesn't flow.

It's leaden, just like the 1992 version with Patsy Kensit: only Deborah Kerr showed how to do this, in The Innocents in 1961.