The Nanny

The Nanny (1965)

  • 91% of critics liked it
    (11 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (869 ratings)

In this thriller (which represented something of a departure for Hammer Films, noted for their gothic period pieces), Joey Fane (William Dix) has returned home after two years in an institution for mentally ill children. His sister drowned, and his family believes that Joey was to blame, despite his… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Classics
In Theaters
Oct 27, 1965 Wide
On DVD
Dec 21, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com

    The Nanny is not especially ambitious, so one must settle for the small pleasures and chills that it offers.

  • Felix Gonzalez Jr., DVD Review

    ... The Nanny holds up considerably well today as a slight, but unsettling, thriller.

  • Dan Callahan, Slant Magazine

    A rather quiet, cautious thriller that gives Davis more room for characterization than most of her later films.

  • John Wirt, Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

    Bette Davis as the baddest of nannies. Scary in its modest way.

  • Christopher Smith, Bangor Daily News (Maine)

    Fantastic. Davis is perfectly creepy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Pierluigi P


    One of Hammer Films' most accomplished works. An eerie and ambiguous psychological thriller that deals with some disturbing taboo themes inside family, sort of the common groundwork for novelist Evelyn Piper, the same who wrote the more popular "Bunny Lake is Missing".… More

  • Michael G


    I thought for sure that The Nanny was going to turn out to be some campy and gaudy forgettable film in the twilight of the career of Bette Davis. What it actually turns out to be is a sadly overlooked powerhouse performance by Davis that's every bit as horrific as it is… More

  • jay n


    Bette is masterful as always, the movie is chilling.

  • Candy R


    Creepy movie about a nanny.

  • Ed Fucking H


    A really good and criminally overlooked gem from classic British Horror studio Hammer, starring the always wonderful Bette Davis. Story revolves around a young boy named Joey who was recently released from a mental institution for troubled youth. He was locked up for the accidental… More

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