Mackenzie Davis has no idea what she’s in for when she takes her first live-in nanny position in “The Turning,” director Floria Sigismondi’s modern reimagining of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw.” A trailer for the Universal horror pic has arrived.

The first sign things will be off at Kate’s (Davis) new job is the ominous welcome she receives from the kids’ creepy guardian. “The children are very special,” Mrs. Grose (Barbara Marten) announces. “They’re thoroughbreds.”

That’s about all the info Kate receives about the orphans she’ll be taking care of. No one will tell her how their parents died or what happened to her predecessor.

What Kate does know for sure is that something sinister is happening. A part of the house — a mansion, natch — is closed off, the elder kid (Finn Wolfhard, “Stranger Things”) abuses animals, and he and his sister (Brooklynn Prince, “The Florida Project”) are haunted by some supernatural being.

“Nothing should have to suffer,” the boy tells Kate. But it seems safe to say everyone in “The Turning” will.

You can catch Davis next in “Terminator: Dark Fate,” out November 1. Her credits include “San Junipero,” “Tully,” and “Halt and Catch Fire.”

Previously, Sigismondi helmed “The Runaways,” episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “American Gods,” and dozens of music videos.

“The Turning” opens January 24.