The Turn of the Screw adaptations and reworkings in a variety of media, and these reworkings and adaptations have, themselves, been analysed in the academic literature on Henry James and neo-Victorian culture. It was adapted to an opera by Benjamin Britten, which premiered in 1954, and the opera has been filmed on numerous occasions. The novella was adapted as a ballet score (1980) by Luigi Zaninelli, and separately as a ballet (1999) by Will Tucket for the Royal Ballet. Harold Pinter directed "The Innocents" (1950), a Broadway play which was an adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw", and a subsequent eponymous stage play, adapted
The Turn of the Screw by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was presented in a co-production with Hammer at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013. There have been numerous film adaptations of the novel. The critically acclaimed "The Innocents" (1961), directed by Jack Clayton, and Michael Winner's prequel "The Nightcomers" (1972) are two particularly notable examples. Other feature film adaptations include Rusty Lemorande's 1992 eponymous adaptation (set in the 1960s); Eloy de la Iglesia's Spanish-language "Otra vuelta de tuerca" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1985); "Presence of Mind" (1999), directed by Atoni Aloy; "In a Dark Place" (2006), directed by Donato Rotunno and Walter Lima Jr.'s Brazilian-Portuguese-language