 The Turn of the Screw was first shown at 9 pm on BBC One on 30 December 2009 , as part of the BBC 's Christmas 2009 season . It has since been broadcast on other BBC channels and on Drama . In the UK , the film was released on DVD on 1 March 2010 , and distributed by Acorn Media UK . The DVD was rated " 15 " by the British Board of Film Classification for " infrequent scenes of strong sex " . The film was released on DVD for the North American market as Ghost Story : The Turn of the Screw on 28 April 2015 . The DVD was unrated and had no extra features . Foreign language versions of the film include television screenings or DVD releases of the film in German ( Schloss des <unk> ) , Finnish ( <unk> ) and Polish ( W <unk> <unk> ) . 
