Down a Dark Hall

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Down a Dark Hall

PG-13,

2018,

1h 36m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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Five emotionally fragile teens are committed to Blackwood, a mysterious school for gifted girls. Mesmerized by the intense head mistress Madame Duret, they think they have found a place where they can finally flourish academically and artistically. The mystery deepens as they break through layer after layer of misdirection to discover the true, horrifying purpose of the school.

Critics Consensus

Down a Dark Hall is more stylish than scary, although its foreboding atmosphere may raise a few goosebumps among younger viewers.

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Aug 17, 2018

2/4

Down a Dark Hall eventually goes Down a Convoluted Tunnel, with some admittedly creepy but also just plain crazy sequences.

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Tomris Laffly

RogerEbert.com

Aug 17, 2018

2/4

Rodrigo Cortés' mild supernatural mystery often feels like an incomplete genre exercise; one that reluctantly tiptoes around its "Suspiria"-for-teens premise.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Aug 17, 2018

This is a decent modern Gothic thriller handled with sufficient style and a straight face by genre ace Cortés.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Feb 23, 2021

.5/4

...a worthless ordeal that fares much, much worse than one might've feared.

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Andrew Wyatt

The Lens

Dec 7, 2018

C-

Dispiritingly bland gothic nonsense, more concerned with gloomy atmosphere and trite adolescent angst than with creating a compelling story.

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J.R. Southall

Starburst

Oct 16, 2018

6/10

Thurman exhibits an eccentric authority that has to be seen to be disbelieved.

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George R

Apr 27, 2019

Camp, borderline trashy shock flick that has no real thread of consistency, but entertaining nonetheless. If for nothing else than the hamny accents by some of the actors. Never really reaches a satisfactory spook factor. But, hell why jot give it a watch.

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Harry L

Apr 23, 2019

Although the movie takes many expected turns and gets wildly out of control towards the end, it's an entertaining picture nonetheless. I really enjoy the whole setting and feeling of isolation that was bestowed upon us. The creepy atmosphere of the school itself was suffocating and put us on edge, right away. Goldbach and Sparling's cast choice was nicely thought out with a big handful of familiar stars in the mix including Uma Thurman, AnnaSophia Robb, Isabelle Fuhrman and Rosie Day. The dark, creepy gothic feel does excite me and held me there in front of the screen. Also the cast really captured the sheer helplessness as they were possessed one by one. The feeling of losing all control and going insane was ever present and thrilling.

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Han S

Mar 11, 2019

it is amazing HOW bad this is

Draco M

Mar 2, 2019

Down a Dark Hall could have been much more than it really was. It has a promising premise, a great cast and wonderful soundtrack, but the plot is full of unexcused holes, it is predictable and the story isn't original. Cliched.

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Feb 15, 2019

The people giving this a poor rating forget the audience is directed towards teens. This was one of my favorite movies growing up and the film was a great adaptation of it. It's a unique plot line with great acting.

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Albus R

Feb 9, 2019

The starting intention is worthy of note: creative thinking is not a consequence of unconscious processes but of paranormal possessions. As if to say: between Freud and Jung. The counterpart is the result: a kind of instruction booklet for YA of next age on the correct management of mediumistic channeling. The director Cortes has the problem of always stopping a moment before the sufficiency. (Mauro Lanari)

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Synopsis

Five emotionally fragile teens are committed to Blackwood, a mysterious school for gifted girls. Mesmerized by the intense head mistress Madame Duret, they think they have found a place where they can finally flourish academically and artistically. The mystery deepens as they break through layer after layer of misdirection to discover the true, horrifying purpose of the school.

Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Producer: Stephenie Meyer, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Meghan Hibbett, Adrián Guerra
Screenwriter: Michael Goldbach, Chris Sparling
Distributor: Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Premiere
Production Co: Movistar+, Nostromo Pictures, Televisio de Catalunya, Fickle Fish, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment, Lionsgate
Rating: PG-13 (Mature Thematic Content|A Sexual Reference|Smoking|Some Language|Terror and Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 19, 2018
Runtime: 1h 36m

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