Watch: Down a Dark Hall 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – After the death of her father when she was a child, Kit Gordy has grown up as a troubled teen for disgust of her mother Ginny and her stepfather Dave Dabrowski. Called to the principal’s office of her high school and accused of a failed attempt to burn it, Kit is expelled from the high school, but Dr. Heather Sinclair, member of the staff of the Blackwood Boarding School, appears to offer her a place in the next school year. Ginny enlists Kit against her will in a try to correct her daughter, and Kit travels Blackwood, an old, isolated and dark mansion in the middle of a forest outside the city. There she meets her companions: nice Izzy, shy Ashley, reluctant Sierra and borderline Veronica, so troubled teens as her own. In the dinner presentation, Kit and the other girls meet Madame Duret, Blackwood’s headmistress, and the rest of the staff: Pr. Farley (maths), Jules Duret (music), Heather Sinclair (arts) and Mrs. Olonsky, Madame Duret’s rude right-hand to keep the peace in Blackwood. Locked in a place without internet, cell phones and all trace of modern technology, Kit watches as all change in a weird way: Izzy develops an extreme obsession for mathematics, Sierra for painting, Ashley for writing and herself for piano, meanwhile that Veronica keeps out from this obsession. Trapped between her love interest for Jules, Madame Duret’s son, and strange memory losses, Kit asks help Veronica to discover the reason of their different changes. Investigating the ruined and forbidden wing of Blackwood at the same time that the works of Izzy, Ashley, Sierra and the own Kit, this last one and Veronica realize not only that all them have one secret in common, but the previous students suffered a horrible fate caused by the Blackwood’s supernatural forces, that it will be too their own unless they find a way to avoid it..
Plot: Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
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Angsty, moody, and depressing. Not very fulfilling.
I think I know what happened to this movie, at least in part: It’s adapted from a book written in the 70s, and that’s why part of it feels like a period piece and so much of it feels just a little “off.” Why didn’t they just set it in the 70s? Did they think the audience wouldn’t relate to timeless issues like rebellious kids in a nightmare school? Setting it in present day didn’t fit the feeling of the school at all. That felt disjointed.But ultimately, the problem for me is that the movie isn’t fulfilling. The ending feels cliche and attempt to give some kind of closure but fails. I absolutely loved the premise of this thing and wished they would have gone further with it, but they didn’t. In fact, I felt like they hardly spent any time with it at all. They spent so much time showing us that the kids are all delinquents and the headmistress is controlling and the school is dark and spooky but ignored the good stuff until the end, when it was supposed to be an a-ha! Moment but it just kind of falls flat.
I loved the performances, the setting, the score, and, like I said, the premise, but I kept getting angry at the movie and its characters for doing dumb things and for constantly bombarding me with conflict rather than resolution. They tease you with it, but never really give it to you, even when they try, and it’s maddening.
You’re gonna laugh at me, but I didn’t even recognize Uma Thurman at first. I didn’t recognize Anna Sophia Robb, either, but she’s grown a little since the last movie I saw her in. I thought both did a wonderful job. The girl from the movie “Orphan” was in this, too, but she didn’t have as much screen time.
There’s a lot I liked about this movie, and I really wish the story had been more fulfilling than it was. In my head, I’m comparing it to The Kingsmen, where similarly, kids are sent to a school with strict rules to be refined into better versions of themselves, but that journey was MUCH more fulfilling and fun. It also kind of reminds me of the movie Seance, which I didn’t like because it turned out to be something other than what it was advertised as, but felt more complete than this did. I also got shades of Harry Potter from this, and now that I think of it more, there are a ton of parallels. I’d recommend watching any of those over this one, but, according to most people’s ratings here, if you want to watch this, you probably won’t hate it, it’s just probably not going to be high on your rating list either.
moody but not that good
Troubled teen Kit Gordy (AnnaSophia Robb) is accused of a past incident and sent to a special school with other troubled girls run by Madame Duret (Uma Thurman). It’s an old mansion under renovation.Nothing happens in the first half. It’s a little moody but nothing special anyways. Then everything happens in the second half and I’m not sure that I understand it all. It has some elements of a good moody gothic horror but it’s not pulled together that well.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 2707199
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director Rodrigo Cortés
Writer Michael Goldbach, Chris Sparling, Lois Duncan
Actors AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman
Country United States, Spain
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Mini, Panavision E-Series Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format CFast 2.0
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format), ProRes 4444 (2.8K) (source format)
Printed Film Format DCP