'Our Mother's House' (1967) - Jack Clayton.

Hyperbole aside this is arguably one of the finest genre films to come out of the UK in the 1960s; a darkly fascinating and entirely compelling examination of a clannish, insular family whose behaviour becomes increasingly erratic after a bereavement fairly rapidly causes their already fragile day-to-day existence to spiral into ever murkier depths of unsupervised eccentricity. Things finally take a proverbial turn for the worst after the initially welcome arrival of Dirk Bogarde's uber spiv character, whose motives for kindly accepting the role of caring patriarch joyfully feral children might be far from altruistic. Master filmmaker Jack Clayton's delightfully unusual 'Our Mother's House' remains to this very day a profoundly penetrating, unflinching examination of child psychosis, and makes for an entirely essential, if not infrequently unsettling, emotionally wrenching viewing experience. And it would be entirely remiss not to mention the exquisite acting performances from a youthful, ensemble cast, with a particularly affecting, uncommonly vivid turn from the luminous, exceptionally gifted Pamela 'Legend of Hell House' Franklin.